--- title: And when they had eaten it, they cried and sorrowed for a while, and… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: And when they had eaten it, they cried and sorrowed for a while, and considered and held counsel together as to how they might manage to live, and to have food and clothing, and, without toiling, to supply others with meat and drink. Who acts: life. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Colle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/130/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/) / 130 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 130 And when they had eaten it, they cried and sorrowed for a while, and considered and held counsel together as to how they might manage to live, and to have food and clothing, and, without toiling, to supply others with meat and drink. **Who acts:** life · **What happens:** eat, cry, sorrow, consider, hold, manage · **To what, where:** morsel, counsel, food, others This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:38:130 # text = And when they had eaten it, they cried and sorrowed for a while, and considered and held counsel together as to how they might manage to live, and to have food and clothing, and, without toiling, to supply others with meat and drink. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sorrowed sorrow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 considered consider VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 counsel counsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 together together ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 manage manage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 34 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 clothing clothing NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 without without SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 toiling toil VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 supply supply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 advcl _ _ 45 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | life | morsel | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | life | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sorrow** | past | life *not said here* | | | | while | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **consider** | past | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hold** | past | | counsel | | | | together *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | | 6 | **manage** | might | life | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **live** | to-infinitive | life *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **have** | to-infinitive | life *not said here* | food and clothing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 9 | **toil** | gerund | life *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **supply** | to-infinitive | life *not said here* | others | | | | with meat and drink | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent other=Recipient with meat=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/129/) - next →: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/131/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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