Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 136

But he stirs the snake-broth as it is cooking, and the steam which rises from it cures his blindness.

Who acts: husband, broth, steam · What happens: stir, cook, rise, cure · To what, where: snake broth, steam, blindness

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, broth, steam), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 stirs	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stirs	nsubj
3	stirs	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 broth	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broth	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 snake	punct
7	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stirs	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 cooking	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cooking	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cooking	aux
11	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stirs	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cures	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cures	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 steam	det
15	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cures	nsubj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 rises	nsubj
17	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 steam	acl:relcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rises	obl
20	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stirs	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 blindness	nmod:poss
22	blindness	blindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cures	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stirs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stir	present	husband	the snake broth		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus broth=Experiencer
2	cook	present · progressive	broth			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	rise	present	the steam		steam	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_Location
4	cure	present	the steam	husband's blindness		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer blindness=Source

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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