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description: Demon haunted waters, which prove fatal to mortals who bathe in or drink of them, often occur in oriental fiction. Who acts: Demon, waters, mortals. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 64

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Demon haunted waters, which prove fatal to mortals who bathe in or drink of them, often occur in oriental fiction.

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**Who acts:** Demon, waters, mortals · **What happens:** haunt, prove, bathe in, drink, occur · **To what, where:** waters, oriental fiction

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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, waters, mortals), 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:pg22373:28:64
# text = Demon haunted waters, which prove fatal to mortals who bathe in or drink of them, often occur in oriental fiction.
1	Demon	Demon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	haunted	haunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	prove	prove	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mortals	mortal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	bathe	bathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	occur	occur	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	oriental	oriental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	fiction	fiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	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 | **haunt** | past | Demon | waters |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus water=Experiencer |
| 2 | **prove** | present | waters |  |  |  |  | fatal *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bathe in** | present | mortals |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drink** | infinitive | mortals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of mortals *= mortal* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of they=Source |
| 5 | **occur** | present | mortals *not said here* |  |  | oriental fiction |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fiction=Location |

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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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