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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 8

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In all these matters the Russian and the Western tales agree, but the Skazka differs from most stories of its kind in this respect, that it almost invariably speaks of \_two\_ kinds of magic waters as being employed for the restoration of life.

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**Who acts:** these, Western tales, Skazka · **What happens:** matter, agree, differ, speak, employ · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (these, Western tales, Skazka), 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:pg22373:42:8
# text = In all these matters the Russian and the Western tales agree, but the Skazka differs from most stories of its kind in this respect, that it almost invariably speaks of _two_ kinds of magic waters as being employed for the restoration of life.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Skazka	Skazka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	differs	differ	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	_
36	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	restoration	restoration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **matter** | present | these |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | the Western tales |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **differ** | present | the Skazka |  |  |  |  | from most stories of Skazka's kind in this respect | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from story=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Skazka |  |  |  |  | of two kinds of magic waters; invariably *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **employ** | gerund · passive | Skazka *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the restoration of life | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: for restoration=Eventuality |

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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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