Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 75
She will be a terrible witch, and she will eat up her father, and her mother, and all their subjects.
Who acts: mother · What happens: be, eat up · To what, where: terrible witch, father
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 (mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:2339): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 witch | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 witch | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 witch | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 5 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 witch | amod |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eat | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 eat | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 eat | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 eat | aux |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 witch | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 eat | compound:prt |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eat | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mother | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mother | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 father | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 subjects | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 subjects | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 subjects | det:predet |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 23 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 father | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 witch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | mother | a terrible witch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat up | future | mother | mother's father and mother's mother and father's subjects | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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