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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 6

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\[297\] When the hero of a "fairy story" has been done to death by evil hands, his resuscitation by means of a healing and vivifying lotion or ointment\[298\] follows almost as a matter of course.

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**Who acts:** evil hands, 297, healing, lotion, Death · **What happens:** do, mean, vivify, follow, resuscitate · **To what, where:** hero

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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 (evil hands, 297, healing, lotion), 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:pg22373:42:6
# text = [297] When the hero of a "fairy story" has been done to death by evil hands, his resuscitation by means of a healing and vivifying lotion or ointment[298] follows almost as a matter of course.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	297	297	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	resuscitation	resuscitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	_
25	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	vivifying	vivify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
31	lotion	lotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	298	298	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
37	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl:relcl	_	_
38	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
43	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · perfect · passive | evil hands and Death's resuscitation | the hero of a fairy story |  |  |  | to death | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **mean** | present | 297 |  |  |  |  | of a healing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **vivify** | gerund | a healing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **follow** | present | lotion or ointment |  |  |  |  | as a matter | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as matter=Value |
| 5 | **resuscitate** |  | Death |  |  |  |  |  | nom resuscitation «act transitive»: poss=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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