Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 136

She received you so kindly and fed us, and she was so happy in the expectation of the calf, for then the cow would have had milk, which is food for every home.”

Who acts: cow, milk · What happens: receive, feed, be, have, expect · To what, where: you, us, expectation, milk, food, calf

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 (cow, milk), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 received	nsubj
2	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 received	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 kindly	advmod
5	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	2 received	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fed	cc
7	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 received	conj
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 fed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 happy	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 happy	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 happy	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 happy	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 happy	advmod
14	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 received	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 expectation	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 expectation	det
17	expectation	expectation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 happy	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 calf	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 calf	det
20	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 expectation	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 then	case
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 had	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cow	det
25	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 had	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	aux
28	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 happy	parataxis
29	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 food	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 food	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 food	cop
33	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 milk	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 home	case
35	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	36 home	det
36	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 food	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 happy	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past	cow	you			kindly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	feed	past	cow not said here		us			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
3	is	past	cow			the expectation of the calf	happy property	tree rules
4	have	would · perfect	the cow	milk and food				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
5	is a	present	milk and food	food			for every home	tree rules
6	expect			the calf				nom expectation «cognition transitive»: of=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 136

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 136