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title: For she ran to her dun cow’s right foot, bowed down, and ate, and dr… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For she ran to her dun cow’s right foot, bowed down, and ate, and drank, and went about all day long splendidly attired. Who acts: Márya. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 17

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For she ran to her dun cow’s right foot, bowed down, and ate, and drank, and went about all day long splendidly attired.

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**Who acts:** Márya · **What happens:** run, bow down, eat, drink, go about, attire · **To what, where:** right foot

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Márya), 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:pg62509:2:17
# text = For she ran to her dun cow’s right foot, bowed down, and ate, and drank, and went about all day long splendidly attired.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dun	dun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
27	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	attired	attire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Márya |  |  |  |  | to Márya's dun cow's right foot *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to foot=Result |
| 2 | **bow down** | participle |  | Márya's dun cow's right foot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drink** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go about** | past |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **attire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | long, splendidly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: 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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