Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 7

Then he applies the Vivifying Water, and the use of his legs returns to him.

Who acts: man, use · What happens: apply, vivify, return, use · To what, where: Vivifying Water, man, legs

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, use), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 applies	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 applies	nsubj
3	applies	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Water	det
5	Vivifying	vivify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Water	amod
6	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 applies	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 returns	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 returns	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 use	det
10	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 returns	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 legs	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 legs	nmod:poss
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	nmod
14	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 applies	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 returns	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 applies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	apply	present	man	the Vivifying Water		then	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	vivify	gerund					tree rules
3	return	present	the use of man's legs		man		vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result
4	use			man's legs			nom use «act transitive»: of=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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