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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/) / 66 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:32:66 # text = 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. 1 Without without ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 3 apparent apparent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 abnormal abnormal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 conduct conduct NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 devour devour VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 25 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ _ 26 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 35 developing develop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 36 as as ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 rapidly rapidly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 appetite appetite NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/67/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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