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title: The wolf ran and snatched up the poor widow’s cow, and when the old… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 139

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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.

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**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

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:15:139
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
33	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	xcomp	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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