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description: She instructs Chandasena how to kill her father, who accordingly falls a victim to a well-aimed shaft. Who acts: Chandasena, father. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 63

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She instructs Chandasena how to kill her father, who accordingly falls a victim to a well-aimed shaft.

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**Who acts:** Chandasena, father · **What happens:** instruct, kill, fall, aim · **To what, where:** Chandasena, father, victim

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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 (Chandasena, father), 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:pg22373:21:63
# text = She instructs Chandasena how to kill her father, who accordingly falls a victim to a well-aimed shaft.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	instructs	instruct	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Chandasena	Chandasena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	aimed	aim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	shaft	shaft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **instruct** *speech: other* | present | Chandasena |  | Chandasena |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chandasena=Recipient |
| 2 | **kill** | to-infinitive | Chandasena *not said here* | Chandasena's father |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | present | Chandasena's father | a victim |  |  |  | to a aimed shaft *result*; accordingly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient victim=Extent to shaft=Result |
| 4 | **aim** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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