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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 2

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Thus, an evil spirit is described as coming every night at twelve o'clock to the chamber of a certain princess, and giving her no rest till the dawn of day.

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**What happens:** describe, come, give · **To what, where:** evil spirit, twelve o'clock, rest

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:62:2
# text = Thus, an evil spirit is described as coming every night at twelve o'clock to the chamber of a certain princess, and giving her no rest till the dawn of day.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	till	till	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · passive |  | a evil spirit |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  | twelve o'clock | night | to the chamber of a certain princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **give** | gerund |  | princess's rest |  |  | dawn |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |

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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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