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description: The younger is the demon's sister, the elder is a king's daughter whom the demon has carried off from her home, after eating her father and all his followers. Who acts: elder. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, with its
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 90

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The younger is the demon's sister, the elder is a king's daughter whom the demon has carried off from her home, after eating her father and all his followers.

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**Who acts:** elder · **What happens:** be, carry off, eat · **To what, where:** sister, daughter, demon, home, father

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder), 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:pg22373:33:90
# text = The younger is the demon's sister, the elder is a king's daughter whom the demon has carried off from her home, after eating her father and all his followers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	advcl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the demon's sister and a king's daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the elder | a king's daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry off** | present · perfect · passive |  | the demon |  | demon's home |  | a king's daughter *obl* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from home=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund |  | demon's father and king's followers |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient |

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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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