Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 143

She will be a dreadful witch and will eat up your father and your mother and all their subjects.

Who acts: Mother · What happens: be, eat up · To what, where: dreadful witch, father

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. 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.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

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	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 witch	amod
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eat	cc
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	aux
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 witch	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 eat	compound:prt
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mother	cc
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 father	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 subjects	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 subjects	det:predet
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 subjects	nmod:poss
19	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 father	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 witch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	future	Mother	a dreadful witch					tree rules
2	eat up	future	Mother not said here	your father and your mother and country'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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 143

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 143