Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 79
The magic waters, of course, soon remedy this temporary inconvenience.
Who acts: magic waters · What happens: remedy · To what, where: temporary inconvenience
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magic waters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 waters | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 waters | amod |
| 3 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 remedy | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 course | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 course | case |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waters | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 waters | punct |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 remedy | advmod |
| 9 | remedy | remedy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 inconvenience | det |
| 11 | temporary | temporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 inconvenience | amod |
| 12 | inconvenience | inconvenience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remedy | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 remedy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remedy | infinitive | the magic waters and course | this temporary inconvenience | soon property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent inconvenience=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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