Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 8

Similarly when the blind man applies the Healing Water to his empty orbits, he obtains new eyes--"perfectly faultless eyes, only he cannot see with them;" he applies the Vivifying Water, "and begins to see even better than before."

Who acts: blind man, man · What happens: apply, obtain, not see, vivify, begin, see · To what, where: Healing Water, new eyes, Vivifying Water, better

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 (blind man, man), 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	Similarly	similarly	ADV	_	6 applies	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 applies	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 applies	nsubj
6	applies	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Water	det
8	Healing	Healing	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Water	compound
9	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 applies	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 orbits	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 orbits	nmod:poss
12	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 orbits	amod
13	orbits	orbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 applies	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 obtains	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 obtains	nsubj
16	obtains	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 applies	conj
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eyes	amod
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 obtains	obj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 eyes	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 eyes	punct
21	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	22 faultless	advmod
22	faultless	faultless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eyes	amod
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eyes	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
25	only	only	ADV	_	29 see	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 see	advmod
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 obtains	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 applies	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 applies	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 applies	nsubj
35	applies	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 applies	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Water	det
37	Vivifying	vivify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 Water	amod
38	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 applies	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Water	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 Water	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 begins	cc
42	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 applies	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 see	mark
44	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 begins	xcomp
45	even	even	ADV	_	46 better	advmod
46	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 see	obl
47	than	than	ADP	_	48 before	case
48	before	before	ADV	_	46 better	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 applies	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 applies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	apply	present	the blind man	the Healing Water	to man's empty orbits; similarly property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	obtain	present	man	new eyes and faultless eyes		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
3	not see in a quote	can	man		with waters = water	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	apply	present	man	the Vivifying Water		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
5	vivify	gerund				tree rules
6	begin in a quote	present	man not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	see in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here	better		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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