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description: It is haunted by a _Yakshini_, a female demon, who turns men by spells into brutes, and then eats them; so they sit watching and praying beside a fire round which they have traced a circle of ashes. Who acts: Yakshini, female demon, men. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Mus
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 86

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It is haunted by a \_Yakshini\_, a female demon, who turns men by spells into brutes, and then eats them; so they sit watching and praying beside a fire round which they have traced a circle of ashes.

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**Who acts:** Yakshini, female demon, men · **What happens:** haunt, turn, eat, sit, watch, pray · **To what, where:** body, men, brutes, fire

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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 (Yakshini, female demon, men), 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:pg22373:48:86
# text = It is haunted by a _Yakshini_, a female demon, who turns men by spells into brutes, and then eats them; so they sit watching and praying beside a fire round which they have traced a circle of ashes.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	haunted	haunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Yakshini	Yakshini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	brutes	brute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	praying	pray	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	conj	_	_
33	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	round	round	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obl	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	traced	trace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl:relcl	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haunt** | present · passive | a Yakshini | body |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **turn** | present | a female demon | men |  | brutes |  | by spells | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme by spell=Source into brute=Trajectory |
| 3 | **eat** | present | a female demon *not said here* | men *= man* |  |  | then |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **sit** | present | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **watch** | gerund | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **pray** | gerund | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  | a fire |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **trace** | present · perfect · passive |  | men *= man* |  |  |  | round a fire | tree rules |

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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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