Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 111

But she did all she could for the wayfarers, setting before them all the food she had, and letting them sleep beneath her roof.

Who acts: Widow, food · What happens: do, set, have, let, sleep · To what, where: all, food

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Widow, food), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 did	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 did	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 could	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 all	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 wayfarers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wayfarers	det
9	wayfarers	wayfarer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 setting	punct
11	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 setting	obl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 food	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 food	det
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 setting	obj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 food	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 letting	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 letting	cc
21	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 setting	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 letting	obj
23	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 letting	xcomp
24	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	26 roof	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 roof	nmod:poss
26	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sleep	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Widow	all		for the wayfarers	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
2	set	gerund	Widow not said here	all food	before wayfarers = wayfarer		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme before they=Destination
3	have	past	Widow	all food not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
4	let	gerund	Widow not said here	food			tree rules
5	sleep	infinitive	food not said here			beneath Widow's roof	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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