--- title: [105] A magic water, which brings back the dead to life, plays a pro… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: [105] A magic water, which brings back the dead to life, plays a prominent part in the folk-lore of all lands, but the two waters, each performing one part only of the cure, render very noteworthy the Slavonic stories in which they occur. Who acts: magic water, each, stories. A sentence of «Russian --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/81/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/) / 81 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 81 \[105\] A magic water, which brings back the dead to life, plays a prominent part in the folk-lore of all lands, but the two waters, each performing one part only of the cure, render very noteworthy the Slavonic stories in which they occur. **Who acts:** magic water, each, stories · **What happens:** bring back, play, perform, render, occur · **To what, where:** dead, life, prominent part, folk lore, one part, noteworthy Slavonic stories This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magic water, each, stories), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:23:81 # text = [105] A magic water, which brings back the dead to life, plays a prominent part in the folk-lore of all lands, but the two waters, each performing one part only of the cure, render very noteworthy the Slavonic stories in which they occur. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 105 105 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 back back ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 prominent prominent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 lore lore NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 35 nsubj _ _ 35 performing perform VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 acl _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 only only ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 cure cure NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 render render VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 44 very very ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 noteworthy noteworthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 Slavonic Slavonic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 52 obl _ _ 51 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 occur occur VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring back** | present | a magic water | the dead | | life | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dead=Theme to life=Destination | | 2 | **play** | present | a magic water *not said here* | a prominent part | | the folk lore of all lands | | the two waters *obl* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 3 | **perform** | gerund | each | one part | | | | of the cure | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 4 | **render** | present | a magic water *not said here* | the noteworthy Slavonic stories | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | | 5 | **occur** | present | stories *= story* | | | the noteworthy Slavonic stories | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/82/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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