---
title: She would have pleased Satan more than the clear-eyed hawk, and it w… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She would have pleased Satan more than the clear-eyed hawk, and it was no good frothing at anybody: he was the only person in the wrong. Who acts: wife, hawk, Satan. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/25/127/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/25/) / 127

# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 127

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She would have pleased Satan more than the clear-eyed hawk, and it was no good frothing at anybody: he was the only person in the wrong.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** wife, hawk, Satan · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** pleased Satan, good frothing, anybody, only person, wrong

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, hawk, Satan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:25:128
# text = She would have pleased Satan more than the clear-eyed hawk, and it was no good frothing at anybody: he was the only person in the wrong.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Satan	Satan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	frothing	frothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | wife | pleased Satan |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satan=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | hawk | no good frothing |  | anybody |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Satan | the only person |  | the wrong |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/25/126/)
- next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/25/128/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/25/)