--- title: In the first of these two stories the lady is the daughter of a Raks… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: In the first of these two stories the lady is the daughter of a Rakshasa, who is invulnerable except in the palm of the left hand, for which reason, our hero, Chandasena has been unable to wound him when in his boar disguise. Who acts: lady, daughter, Chandasena. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/62/) [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/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/) / 62 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 62 In the first of these two stories the lady is the daughter of a Rakshasa, who is invulnerable except in the palm of the left hand, for which reason, our hero, Chandasena has been unable to wound him when in his boar disguise. **Who acts:** lady, daughter, Chandasena · **What happens:** be, wound · **To what, where:** daughter, hero, boar disguise This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, daughter, Chandasena), 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:pg22373:21:62 # text = In the first of these two stories the lady is the daughter of a Rakshasa, who is invulnerable except in the palm of the left hand, for which reason, our hero, Chandasena has been unable to wound him when in his boar disguise. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 first first NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Rakshasa Rakshasa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 invulnerable invulnerable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 20 except except ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 31 det _ _ 31 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 Chandasena Chandasena PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 37 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 cop _ _ 39 unable unable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 wound wound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 boar boar NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 disguise disguise NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the lady | the daughter | | | | of this two stories; of a Rakshasa | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the daughter | | | | | except the palm of the left hand and which reason and our hero; invulnerable *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present · perfect | Chandasena | | | | | unable *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **wound** | to-infinitive | Chandasena *not said here* | hero | | hero's boar disguise | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | 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: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/63/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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