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description: The Holy Water which destroys the Fiend is merely a Christian form of the "Water of Death," viewed in its negative aspect. Who acts: Holy Water. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 53

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The Holy Water which destroys the Fiend is merely a Christian form of the "Water of Death," viewed in its negative aspect.

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**Who acts:** Holy Water · **What happens:** destroy, be, view · **To what, where:** Fiend, Christian form, negative aspect

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Holy Water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:18:53
# text = The Holy Water which destroys the Fiend is merely a Christian form of the "Water of Death," viewed in its negative aspect.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	_
3	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	destroys	destroy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Fiend	fiend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	viewed	view	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	negative	negative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | present | the Holy Water | the Fiend |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiend=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Holy Water | a Christian form |  |  |  | of the Water of Death; merely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **view** | participle |  |  |  | Water's negative aspect |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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