Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 141

During her absence a female Naga (or supernatural snake-being) ate up the rice, and then "entering her hole, sat there, resolved to bite the woman if she should curse her, but not otherwise."

Who acts: female Naga, wife · What happens: eat up, enter, sit, resolve, bite, curse · To what, where: rice, hole, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (female Naga, wife), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 absence	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 absence	nmod:poss
3	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ate	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Naga	det
5	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Naga	amod
6	Naga	Naga	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 ate	nsubj
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 supernatural	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 supernatural	cc
9	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Naga	appos
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 being	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 snake	punct
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 supernatural	parataxis
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 supernatural	punct
14	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 ate	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rice	det
17	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ate	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 entering	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 entering	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 entering	advmod
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 entering	punct
22	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 ate	advcl
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hole	nmod:poss
24	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 entering	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ate	parataxis
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 sat	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 resolved	punct
29	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 sat	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 bite	mark
31	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 resolved	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 woman	det
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bite	obj
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 curse	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 curse	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 curse	aux
37	curse	curse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 bite	advcl
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 curse	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 otherwise	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 otherwise	cc
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 otherwise	advmod
42	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	14 ate	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 ate	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	past	a female Naga	the rice		during wife's absence	otherwise property	tree rules
2	enter in a quote	gerund	a female Naga not said here	wife's hole		then		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Destination
3	sit in a quote	past			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	resolve in a quote	participle						tree rules
5	bite in a quote	to-infinitive		the woman				vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient
6	curse a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should	wife	woman				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
7	absent		wife					nom absence «state 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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