--- title: During her absence a female Naga (or supernatural snake-being) ate u… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/141/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/) / 141 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:61:141 # text = 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." 1 During during ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 absence absence NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Naga Naga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 supernatural supernatural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 appos _ _ 10 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 14 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 entering enter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 27 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 resolved resolve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 if if SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 curse curse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 38 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/140/) - next →: [sentence 142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/142/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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