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description: That she will never solve all her life long, for every riddle she has solved at once, for she had only to look in her magical book; and she would then have your head cut off.” Who acts: That, Anna, head. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tre
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 26

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That she will never solve all her life long, for every riddle she has solved at once, for she had only to look in her magical book; and she would then have your head cut off.”

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**Who acts:** That, Anna, head · **What happens:** not solve, solve, have, look, cut off · **To what, where:** life, riddle, head

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Anna, head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:38:27
# text = That she will never solve all her life long, for every riddle she has solved at once, for she had only to look in her magical book; and she would then have your head cut off.”
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj:outer	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	solve	solve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	solved	solve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
35	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	xcomp	_	_
39	off	off	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **solve** | future | That | Anna's life |  |  |  | for every riddle; Anna *nsubj*; long *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic |
| 2 | **solve** | present · perfect | Anna | every riddle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | Anna |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | Anna *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in Anna's magical book | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in book=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | would | Anna | your head |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cut off** | participle | your head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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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