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description: When all is still a Rakshasa appears on the threshold, opens the door, and thrusts into the room an arm--which the hero cuts off. Who acts: Rakshasa, hero. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, with its dependency tree and the
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 135

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When all is still a Rakshasa appears on the threshold, opens the door, and thrusts into the room an arm--which the hero cuts off.

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**Who acts:** Rakshasa, hero · **What happens:** be, appear, open, thrust, cut off · **To what, where:** Rakshasa, threshold, door, arm, room

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rakshasa, hero), 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:pg22373:46:135
# text = When all is still a Rakshasa appears on the threshold, opens the door, and thrusts into the room an arm--which the hero cuts off.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Rakshasa	Rakshasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	thrusts	thrust	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	cuts	cut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | all Rakshasa |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | present | all Rakshasa |  |  | the threshold |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on threshold=Location |
| 3 | **open** | present |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 4 | **thrust** | present |  | a arm |  | the room |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 5 | **cut off** | present | the hero | a arm |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector which=Eventuality |

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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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