Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 19

Vasilissa was the prettiest girl[183] in all the village; but her stepmother and stepsisters were jealous of her beauty, and tormented her with every possible sort of toil, in order that she might grow thin from over-work, and be tanned by the sun and the wind.

Who acts: Vasilissa, stepmother, widow, sun · What happens: be, torment, grow, tan, sort · To what, where: prettiest girl, widow, order, over-work, toil

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilissa, stepmother, widow, sun), 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	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 girl	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 girl	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	[	[	PUNCT	_	7 183	punct
7	183	183	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 girl	appos
8	]	]	PUNCT	_	7 183	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 village	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 village	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 village	det
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 183	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 jealous	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 jealous	cc
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 stepmother	nmod:poss
16	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jealous	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stepsisters	cc
18	stepsisters	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stepmother	conj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 jealous	cop
20	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 beauty	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 beauty	nmod:poss
23	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jealous	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tormented	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tormented	cc
26	tormented	torment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 jealous	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tormented	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 sort	case
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 sort	det
30	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sort	amod
31	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tormented	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 toil	case
33	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sort	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 order	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 order	case
36	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tormented	obl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 grow	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 grow	nsubj
39	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 grow	aux
40	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 order	acl
41	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 grow	xcomp
42	from	from	ADP	_	43 over-work	case
43	over-work	over-work	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 grow	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 tanned	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 tanned	cc
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 tanned	aux:pass
47	tanned	tan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 girl	conj
48	by	by	ADP	_	50 sun	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 sun	det
50	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 tanned	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 wind	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 wind	det
53	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 sun	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 girl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Vasilissa	the prettiest girl			tree rules
2	is	past	widow's stepmother and stepsisters			of widow's beauty; jealous property	tree rules
3	torment	past	widow's stepmother and stepsisters not said here	widow	order	with every possible sort of toil	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
4	grow	might	widow	order not said here	over-work	thin property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent order=Product from over-work=Material
5	tan	infinitive · passive	the sun and the wind				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sort			toil			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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