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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 106

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"See now, my dear son; in one of these tubs is the 'Water of Strength,' in the other is the 'Water of Weakness.'

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**Who acts:** you, one, other · **What happens:** see, be · **To what, where:** Water

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one, other), 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:pg22373:42:106
# text = "See now, my dear son; in one of these tubs is the 'Water of Strength,' in the other is the 'Water of Weakness.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	tubs	tub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Strength	Strength	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | my dear son *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | one of this tubs | the Water |  |  |  | of Strength | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the other |  |  | the Water |  | of Weakness | tree rules |

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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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