Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 111

“I only have one little crust of bread and a mere handful of flour, and my cow is calving and has no milk.

Who acts: widow, cow · What happens: have, calve · To what, where: one little crust, milk

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, cow), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 crust	nummod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crust	amod
7	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 bread	case
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crust	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 handful	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 handful	det
12	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 handful	amod
13	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crust	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 flour	case
15	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 handful	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 calving	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 calving	cc
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 cow	nmod:poss
19	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 calving	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 calving	aux
21	calving	calve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 have	advcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 has	cc
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 calving	conj
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 milk	det
25	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	the widow = widow	one little crust of bread and a mere handful of flour	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Patient
2	calve in a quote	present · progressive	my cow		vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have in a quote	present	my cow not said here	no milk	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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 15, sentence 111

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 111