Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 8

[317] The following may be taken as a specimen of the stories in which there is introduced a true Water of Death--one of those deadly springs which bear the same relation to the healing and vivifying founts that the enfeebling bears to the strengthening water.

Who acts: deadly springs · What happens: follow, take, introduce, bear, vivify, enfeeble · To what, where: 317, true Water, stories, same relation, founts

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deadly springs), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 317	punct
2	317	317	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 taken	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 317	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 following	det
5	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 317	acl
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 taken	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 taken	aux:pass
8	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 specimen	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 specimen	det
11	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taken	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 stories	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stories	det
14	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 specimen	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 introduced	obl
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 introduced	expl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 introduced	aux:pass
19	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 stories	acl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Water	det
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Water	amod
22	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 introduced	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Death	case
24	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Water	nmod
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 Water	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 springs	case
28	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 springs	det
29	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 springs	amod
30	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 bear	nsubj
32	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 springs	acl:relcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 relation	det
34	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 relation	amod
35	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bear	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 healing	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 healing	det
38	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bear	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 vivifying	cc
40	vivifying	vivify	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 bear	conj
41	founts	fount	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 vivifying	obj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 bears	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 bears	det
44	enfeebling	enfeeble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 bears	amod
45	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 vivifying	advcl
46	to	to	ADP	_	49 water	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 water	det
48	strengthening	strengthen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 water	amod
49	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 bears	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	may · passive		317		as a specimen of the stories	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: as specimen=Attribute
3	introduce	present · passive		a true Water of Death	the stories; there		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: water=Patient
4	bear	present	that deadly springs	the same relation		to the healing	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Patient
5	vivify	gerund	that deadly springs not said here	founts			tree rules
6	enfeeble	gerund					tree rules
7	strengthen	gerund					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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