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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 18

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She replies she has seen none, her eyes being full of tears caused by the death of the Rakshasa prince Agnisikha.

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**Who acts:** demon, eyes, Agnisikha · **What happens:** reply, see, be, cause, die · **To what, where:** none, tears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demon, eyes, Agnisikha), 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:pg22373:28:18
# text = She replies she has seen none, her eyes being full of tears caused by the death of the Rakshasa prince Agnisikha.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	replies	reply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
6	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	Rakshasa	Rakshasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:desc	_	_
22	Agnisikha	Agnisikha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | present | demon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | present · perfect | demon | none |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer none=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | demon's eyes |  |  |  |  | of tears; full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cause** | participle |  | tears *not said here* |  |  |  | by the death of the Agnisikha  Rakshasa prince | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 5 | **die** |  | the Agnisikha  Rakshasa prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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