Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 12

She tells them that her illness is due to a Snake, which comes to her every night, entering by the chimney, and sucks away her strength.

Who acts: princess, illness, Snake · What happens: tell, be, come, enter, suck away · To what, where: heroes, princess, strength · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, illness, Snake), 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:pg22373:3612): 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	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 due	mark
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 illness	nmod:poss
6	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 due	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 due	cop
8	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tells	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Snake	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Snake	det
11	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 due	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 comes	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 comes	nsubj
14	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Snake	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 comes	obl
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comes	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 entering	punct
20	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 comes	advcl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 chimney	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 chimney	det
23	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 entering	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sucks	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sucks	cc
26	sucks	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 comes	conj
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 sucks	advmod
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 strength	nmod:poss
29	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sucks	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	princess		heroes = hero			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is	present	princess's illness				to a Snake; due property	tree rules
3	come	present	a Snake		princess	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
4	enter	gerund	a Snake not said here				by the chimney	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	suck away	present	a Snake not said here	princess's strength			away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent strength=Source

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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