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description: [317] The following may be taken as a specimen of the stories in which there is introduced a true Water of Death--one of those deadly springs which bear the same relation to the healing and vivifying founts that the enfeebling bears to the strengthening water. Who acts: deadly springs. A sentence of
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 8

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\[317\] The following may be taken as a specimen of the stories in which there is introduced a true Water of Death--one of those deadly springs which bear the same relation to the healing and vivifying founts that the enfeebling bears to the strengthening water.

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**Who acts:** deadly springs · **What happens:** follow, take, introduce, bear, vivify, enfeeble · **To what, where:** 317, true Water, stories, same relation, founts

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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 (deadly springs), 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:pg22373:43:8
# text = [317] The following may be taken as a specimen of the stories in which there is introduced a true Water of Death--one of those deadly springs which bear the same relation to the healing and vivifying founts that the enfeebling bears to the strengthening water.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	317	317	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	specimen	specimen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	bear	bear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	vivifying	vivify	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
41	founts	fount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	enfeebling	enfeeble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	amod	_	_
45	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	advcl	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	strengthening	strengthen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	amod	_	_
49	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | may · passive |  | 317 |  |  |  | as a specimen of the stories | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: as specimen=Attribute |
| 3 | **introduce** | present · passive |  | a true Water of Death |  | the stories; there |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: water=Patient |
| 4 | **bear** | present | that deadly springs | the same relation |  |  |  | to the healing | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Patient |
| 5 | **vivify** | gerund | that deadly springs *not said here* | founts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **enfeeble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **strengthen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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