Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 86

It is haunted by a _Yakshini_, a female demon, who turns men by spells into brutes, and then eats them; so they sit watching and praying beside a fire round which they have traced a circle of ashes.

Who acts: Yakshini, female demon, men · What happens: haunt, turn, eat, sit, watch, pray · To what, where: body, men, brutes, fire

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yakshini, female demon, men), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 haunted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 haunted	aux:pass
3	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 Yakshini	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Yakshini	det
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 Yakshini	punct
7	Yakshini	Yakshini	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 haunted	obl
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 Yakshini	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 demon	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 demon	det
11	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 demon	amod
12	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Yakshini	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turns	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 turns	nsubj
15	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 demon	acl:relcl
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 turns	obj
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 spells	case
18	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 turns	obl
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 brutes	case
20	brutes	brute	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 turns	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eats	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 eats	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 eats	advmod
24	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 turns	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 eats	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 sit	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 sit	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sit	nsubj
29	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 haunted	conj
30	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 sit	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 praying	cc
32	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 watching	conj
33	beside	beside	ADP	_	35 fire	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 fire	det
35	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 praying	obl
36	round	round	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 traced	obl
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 traced	nsubj:pass
39	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 traced	aux
40	traced	trace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 fire	acl:relcl
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 circle	det
42	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 traced	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 ashes	case
44	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 circle	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 haunted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haunt	present · passive	a Yakshini	body				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	turn	present	a female demon	men	brutes		by spells	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme by spell=Source into brute=Trajectory
3	eat	present	a female demon not said here	men = man		then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	sit	present	men = man					tree rules
5	watch	gerund	men = man not said here					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	pray	gerund	men = man not said here		a fire			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	trace	present · perfect · passive		men = man			round a fire	tree rules

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.

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