Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 193

The old woman gave her two phials, the one full of holy water, the other of the water of life, and told her what she was to do.

Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: give, tell, be · To what, where: two phials, youth, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 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 (old woman, woman), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 phials	nummod
7	phials	phial	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 phials	appos
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 water	amod
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 full	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 other	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 other	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 life	case
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 water	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 do	obj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 do	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 do	cop
30	to	to	PART	_	31 do	mark
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	the old woman	two phials	youth		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient phial=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the old woman not said here		woman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is not said to happen	past	woman			do property	tree rules

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.

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