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description: But the enchanted corpses which rise at midnight, and attempt to rend their watchers, appear to owe their ferocity to demoniacal possession. Who acts: enchanted corpses. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, with its dependenc
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 83

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But the enchanted corpses which rise at midnight, and attempt to rend their watchers, appear to owe their ferocity to demoniacal possession.

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**Who acts:** enchanted corpses · **What happens:** enchant, rise, attempt, rend, appear, owe · **To what, where:** watchers, ferocity, demoniacal possession

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enchanted corpses), 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:pg22373:48:83
# text = But the enchanted corpses which rise at midnight, and attempt to rend their watchers, appear to owe their ferocity to demoniacal possession.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	corpses	corpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nmod	_	_
6	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	rend	rend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	watchers	watcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	owe	owe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	ferocity	ferocity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	demoniacal	demoniacal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **rise** | present | the enchanted corpses |  |  |  | midnight |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **attempt** | infinitive | the enchanted corpses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **rend** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the enchanted corpses *not said here* | corpses's watchers |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watcher=Patient |
| 5 | **appear** | present | the enchanted corpses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **owe** | to-infinitive | the enchanted corpses *not said here* | corpses's ferocity |  |  |  | to demoniacal possession *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent ferocity=Theme to possession=Goal |

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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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