--- title: The Waters of Life and Death, and of Strength and Weakness--Aid give… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Waters of Life and Death, and of Strength and Weakness--Aid given to Children by Dead Parents--Magic Horses, Fish, &c.--Stories about Brides won by a Leap, &c.--Stories about Wizards and Witches--The Headless Princess--Midnight Watchings over Corpses--The Fire Bird, its connexion with the Golden --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/7/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Magic and Witchcraft.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/7/) / 1 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., sentence 1 The Waters of Life and Death, and of Strength and Weakness--Aid given to Children by Dead Parents--Magic Horses, Fish, &c.--Stories about Brides won by a Leap, &c.--Stories about Wizards and Witches--The Headless Princess--Midnight Watchings over Corpses--The Fire Bird, its connexion with the Golden Bird and the Phoenix 237 **What happens:** give, win · **To what, where:** Aid, Children, Brides This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:7:1 # text = The Waters of Life and Death, and of Strength and Weakness--Aid given to Children by Dead Parents--Magic Horses, Fish, &c.--Stories about Brides won by a Leap, &c.--Stories about Wizards and Witches--The Headless Princess--Midnight Watchings over Corpses--The Fire Bird, its connexion with the Golden Bird and the Phoenix 237 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Waters Water PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Life Life PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 Death Death PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Strength Strength PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Weakness Weakness PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 -- -- PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Aid Aid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 Dead Dead PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Magic Magic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Fish Fish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 & & CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 28 c. c. NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 31 about about ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Brides bride NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 acl _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Leap leap NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 & & CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 39 c. c. NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 -- -- PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 Stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 42 about about ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Wizards wizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 Witches witch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 -- -- PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 Headless headless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 -- -- PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 Midnight Midnight PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 Watchings watching NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 53 over over ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 Corpses corpse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 -- -- PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 Fire Fire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 compound _ _ 58 Bird Bird PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 61 nmod:poss _ _ 61 connexion connexion NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 62 with with ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 64 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 Bird Bird PROPN NNP Number=Sing 61 nmod _ _ 66 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 Phoenix Phoenix PROPN NNP Number=Sing 65 conj _ _ 69 237 237 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 68 flat _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | participle | | Aid *not said here* | Children | | | by Dead Parents | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient | | 2 | **win** | participle | | Brides *not said here* | | | | by a Leap | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [Chapter III. 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