--- title: In the morning the widow told her sister: “Go and scrape up any flou… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: In the morning the widow told her sister: “Go and scrape up any flour you can find in the corn-bin; possibly we may make a tiny pancake so as to feed our guests.” Who acts: widow, sister, we. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 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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, sister, we), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:15:124 # text = In the morning the widow told her sister: “Go and scrape up any flour you can find in the corn-bin; possibly we may make a tiny pancake so as to feed our guests.” 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 scrape scrape VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 possibly possibly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 pancake pancake NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 37 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 guests guest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the widow | | WIDOW's sister | | morning | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **scrape up** *in a quote* | infinitive | | any flour | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Patient | | 4 | **find** *in a quote* | can | WIDOW's sister *= sister* | any flour *not said here* | | the corn bin | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Topic | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | may | we | a tiny pancake | | | | possibly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pancake=Product | | 6 | **feed** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | | our guests | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Recipient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/15/123/) - next →: [sentence 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/15/125/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/15/)