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description: This Sringabhuja is able to do in spite of all the demon's daughters being exactly alike, as she has told him beforehand she will wear her pearls on her brow instead of round her neck. Who acts: Sringabhuja, demon. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chap
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 4

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This Sringabhuja is able to do in spite of all the demon's daughters being exactly alike, as she has told him beforehand she will wear her pearls on her brow instead of round her neck.

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**Who acts:** Sringabhuja, demon · **What happens:** be, do, tell, wear, spite, pearl · **To what, where:** spite, prince, pearls, brow, daughters · **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 (Sringabhuja, demon), 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:pg22373:28:4
# text = This Sringabhuja is able to do in spite of all the demon's daughters being exactly alike, as she has told him beforehand she will wear her pearls on her brow instead of round her neck.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Sringabhuja	Sringabhuja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	_
16	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	alike	alike	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	beforehand	beforehand	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	37	case	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	round	round	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this Sringabhuja |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | this Sringabhuja *not said here* |  |  | spite of all demon's daughters |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | Sringabhuja |  | prince |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **wear** | future | Sringabhuja | demon's pearls |  | demon's brow |  | instead demon's neck | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme |
| 5 | **spite** |  |  | all demon's daughters |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **pearl** |  | demon |  |  |  |  |  | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: poss=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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