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title: Sometimes, as has already been remarked, one of the two magic waters… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes, as has already been remarked, one of the two magic waters is even more injurious than the Water of Weakness. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 7

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Sometimes, as has already been remarked, one of the two magic waters is even more injurious than the Water of Weakness.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** remark, be

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg22373:43:7
# text = Sometimes, as has already been remarked, one of the two magic waters is even more injurious than the Water of Weakness.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	already	already	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	injurious	injurious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Weakness	Weakness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive | one of the two magic waters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V» |
| 2 | **is** | present | one of the two magic waters |  |  |  |  | than the Water of Weakness; injurious, sometimes *property* | 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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