Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 66

Without any apparent cause for her abnormal conduct, the daughter of an ordinary royal house will suddenly begin to destroy and devour all living things which fall in her way--her strength developing as rapidly as her appetite.

Who acts: daughter, living things, strength, class · What happens: begin, destroy, devour, live, fall, develop · To what, where: living things, way

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, living things, strength, class), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Without	without	ADP	_	4 cause	case
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 cause	det
3	apparent	apparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cause	amod
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 begin	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 conduct	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 conduct	nmod:poss
7	abnormal	abnormal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 conduct	amod
8	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 daughter	det
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 begin	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 house	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 house	det
14	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 house	amod
15	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 house	amod
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 daughter	nmod
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 begin	aux
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	19 begin	advmod
19	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	to	to	PART	_	21 destroy	mark
21	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 begin	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 devour	cc
23	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 destroy	conj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 things	det
25	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 things	amod
26	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 devour	obj
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 fall	nsubj
28	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 things	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 way	nmod:poss
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fall	obl
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 strength	punct
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 strength	nmod:poss
34	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 things	conj
35	developing	develop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 strength	acl
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 rapidly	advmod
37	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	35 developing	advmod
38	as	as	ADP	_	40 appetite	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 appetite	nmod:poss
40	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 rapidly	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	future	the daughter of a ordinary royal house			without any apparent cause for class's abnormal conduct; suddenly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	destroy	to-infinitive	the daughter of a ordinary royal house not said here				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	devour	infinitive	the daughter of a ordinary royal house not said here	all living things and class's strength			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
4	live	gerund					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	present	all living things and class's strength		class's way		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location
6	develop	gerund	class's strength not said here			rapidly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	conduct		class				nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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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