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description: Back again home flies the demon in great distress, anxious to find out whether he has really been wounded to death or not. Who acts: home. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 23

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Back again home flies the demon in great distress, anxious to find out whether he has really been wounded to death or not.

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**Who acts:** home · **What happens:** fly, find out, wound · **To what, where:** demon, great distress, home

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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 (home), 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:pg22373:28:23
# text = Back again home flies the demon in great distress, anxious to find out whether he has really been wounded to death or not.
1	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	really	really	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	wounded	wound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | home | the demon |  | great distress | again |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent demon=Theme in distress=Location |
| 2 | **find out** | to-infinitive | home *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wound** | present · perfect · passive |  | home |  |  |  | to death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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