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title: Such liquors as these are known as the "Waters of Strength and Weakn… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Such liquors as these are known as the "Waters of Strength and Weakness," and are usually described as being stowed away in the cellar of some many-headed Snake. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, with its dependency tree a
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 49

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Such liquors as these are known as the "Waters of Strength and Weakness," and are usually described as being stowed away in the cellar of some many-headed Snake.

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**What happens:** know, describe, stow away · **To what, where:** Such liquors, cellar

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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: 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:pg22373:42:49
# text = Such liquors as these are known as the "Waters of Strength and Weakness," and are usually described as being stowed away in the cellar of some many-headed Snake.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	liquors	liquor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Waters	Water	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Strength	Strength	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Weakness	Weakness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	stowed	stow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	headed	headed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | Such liquors as these |  |  |  | as the Waters of Strength and Weakness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as water=Attribute |
| 2 | **describe** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Theme |
| 3 | **stow away** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | the cellar of some headed Snake |  | away *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in cellar=Destination |

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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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