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description: After several failures, he succeeds in plucking up the rose-tree by the roots, whereupon the enchantress straightway sickens. Who acts: man, enchantress straightway. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, with its dependency
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 70

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After several failures, he succeeds in plucking up the rose-tree by the roots, whereupon the enchantress straightway sickens.

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**Who acts:** man, enchantress straightway · **What happens:** succeed, pluck up, sicken · **To what, where:** rose tree

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, enchantress straightway), 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:pg22373:25:70
# text = After several failures, he succeeds in plucking up the rose-tree by the roots, whereupon the enchantress straightway sickens.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	failures	failure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	succeeds	succeed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	plucking	pluck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sickens	sicken	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | present | man |  |  |  | after several failures |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pluck up** | gerund | man *not said here* | the rose tree |  |  |  | by the roots | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 3 | **sicken** | present | the enchantress straightway |  |  |  |  | whereupon *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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