Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 139

The wolf ran and snatched up the poor widow’s cow, and when the old woman saw this she said contentedly: “The Lord hath given, the Lord hath taken away.

Who acts: wolf, old woman, woman, Lord · What happens: run, snatch up, see, say, have, give · To what, where: cow, this · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wolf, old woman, woman, Lord), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 snatched	cc
5	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 snatched	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 widow	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 widow	amod
9	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cow	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 widow	case
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snatched	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 saw	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	parataxis
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 saw	obj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	conj
22	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	_	21 said	advmod
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 hath	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 hath	punct
25	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Lord	det
26	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 hath	nsubj
27	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	parataxis
28	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 hath	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hath	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Lord	det
31	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 hath	nsubj
32	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hath	conj
33	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 hath	xcomp
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 taken	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	the wolf			tree rules
2	snatch up	past	the wolf not said here	the poor widow's cow		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
3	see	past	the old woman	this		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	woman		contentedly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	have in a quote	present	the Lord			tree rules
6	give in a quote	participle	the Lord not said here			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	have in a quote	present	the Lord			tree rules
8	take away in a quote	participle	the Lord not said here		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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 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 139

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 139