--- title: That prince asks Agnisikha, the Rakshasa whom, in his crane-form, he… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: That prince asks Agnisikha, the Rakshasa whom, in his crane-form, he has wounded, to bestow upon him the hand of his daughter--the maiden who had met him on his arrival at the Rakshasa's palace. Who acts: prince, maiden. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/2/) [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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/) / 2 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 2 That prince asks Agnisikha, the Rakshasa whom, in his crane-form, he has wounded, to bestow upon him the hand of his daughter--the maiden who had met him on his arrival at the Rakshasa's palace. **Who acts:** prince, maiden · **What happens:** ask, wound, bestow, meet, form, arrive · **To what, where:** Agnisikha, crane form, hand, prince, arrival, palace 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 (prince, maiden), 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:pg22373:28:2 # text = That prince asks Agnisikha, the Rakshasa whom, in his crane-form, he has wounded, to bestow upon him the hand of his daughter--the maiden who had met him on his arrival at the Rakshasa's palace. 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Agnisikha Agnisikha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Rakshasa Rakshasa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 crane crane NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 wounded wound VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 bestow bestow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 22 upon upon ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 maiden maiden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 nsubj _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 arrival arrival NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Rakshasa Rakshasa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 42 's 's PART POS _ 41 case _ _ 43 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | that prince | | Agnisikha and the Rakshasa | prince's crane form | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent agnisikha=Recipient | | 2 | **wound** | present · perfect | prince | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **bestow** | to-infinitive | | the hand of prince's daughter | | | | upon prince | tree rules | | 4 | **meet** | past · perfect | the maiden | prince | | prince's arrival at the Rakshasa's palace | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 5 | **form** | | prince | | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **arrive** | | prince | | | the Rakshasa's palace | | | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent at=place | 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/3/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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