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title: The _Yakshini_ seizes his half-burnt corpse and devours it. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The _Yakshini_ seizes his half-burnt corpse and devours it. Who acts: Yakshini _. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 90

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The \_Yakshini\_ seizes his half-burnt corpse and devours it.

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**Who acts:** Yakshini \_ · **What happens:** seize, burnt, devour · **To what, where:** burnt corpse, command

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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 \_), 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:pg22373:48:90
# text = The _Yakshini_ seizes his half-burnt corpse and devours it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Yakshini	Yakshini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seizes	seize	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	devours	devour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | present | the Yakshini \_ | \_'s burnt corpse |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme |
| 2 | **burnt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **devour** | present | the Yakshini \_ *not said here* | command |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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