Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 21

Vasilissa bore everything with resignation, and every day grew plumper and prettier, while the stepmother and her daughters lost flesh and fell off in appearance from the effects of their own spite, notwithstanding that they always sat with folded hands like fine ladies.

Who acts: Vasilissa, day, stepmother · What happens: bear, grow, lose, fall off, notwithstand, sit · To what, where: everything, plumper, flesh, own spite

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, day, stepmother), 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	2 bore	nsubj
2	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 bore	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 resignation	case
5	resignation	resignation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bore	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grew	cc
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	nsubj
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bore	parataxis
11	plumper	plumper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 prettier	cc
13	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 plumper	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lost	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 lost	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stepmother	det
17	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lost	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 daughters	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 daughters	nmod:poss
20	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stepmother	conj
21	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grew	conj
22	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lost	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lost	conj
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 fell	compound:prt
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 appearance	case
27	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 effects	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 effects	det
30	effects	effect	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fell	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 spite	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 spite	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 spite	amod
34	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 effects	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 notwithstanding	punct
36	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 fell	advcl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 sat	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 sat	nsubj
39	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	40 sat	advmod
40	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 notwithstanding	advcl
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 hands	case
42	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 hands	amod
43	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 sat	obl
44	like	like	ADP	_	46 ladies	case
45	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 ladies	amod
46	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 hands	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bear	past	Vasilissa	everything	with resignation	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
2	grow	past	every day	plumper		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plumper=Theme
3	lose	past	the stepmother and widow's daughters	flesh		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Eventuality
4	fall off	past	the stepmother and widow's daughters not said here		from the effects of stepmother's own spite; in appearance	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in appearance=Attribute
5	notwithstand	gerund	the stepmother and widow's daughters not said here			tree rules
6	sit	past	stepmother		with folded hands like fine ladies; always property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	fold	participle				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	effect			stepmother's own spite		nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
9	spite		stepmother			nom spite «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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