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description: He is enabled to perform this feat by a magic horse, which he obtains by watching his father's crops on three successive St. John's Nights. Who acts: story, magic horse. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, with its dependenc
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 110

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He is enabled to perform this feat by a magic horse, which he obtains by watching his father's crops on three successive St. John's Nights.

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**Who acts:** story, magic horse · **What happens:** enable, perform, obtain, watch · **To what, where:** story, feat, crops

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, magic horse), 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:pg22373:45:110
# text = He is enabled to perform this feat by a magic horse, which he obtains by watching his father's crops on three successive St. John's Nights.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	enabled	enable	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	feat	feat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	obtains	obtain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
24	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
25	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:desc	_	_
26	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	Nights	Night	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enable** | present · passive |  | story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perform** | to-infinitive | story *not said here* | this feat |  |  |  | by a magic horse | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feat=Theme |
| 3 | **obtain** | present | a magic horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **watch** | gerund | a magic horse *not said here* | story's father's crops |  |  | on John  St.'s three successive Nights |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Theme |

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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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