Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 137

Well, the old woman with whom Vasilissa lodged, prepared, like everyone else, to sift flour and make a pie.

Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: lodge, sift, make · To what, where: flour, pie

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilissa), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	11 prepared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 prepared	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 whom	case
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 woman	nmod
8	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lodged	nsubj
9	lodged	lodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 whom	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 prepared	punct
11	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 everyone	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 everyone	case
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 prepared	conj
15	else	else	ADV	_	14 everyone	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sift	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sift	mark
18	sift	sift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 prepared	parataxis
19	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sift	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 make	cc
21	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 sift	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pie	det
23	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lodge	past	Vasilissa		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	sift	to-infinitive		flour	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Patient
3	make	infinitive		a pie	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pie=Product

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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