Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 28

Then the doll would eat, and afterwards give her advice, and comfort her in her sorrow, and next day it would do all Vasilissa's work for her.

Who acts: doll, feed, Vasilissa · What happens: eat, give, comfort, do, sorrow, work · To what, where: advice, feed, sorrow, work

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 (doll, feed, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 eat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doll	det
3	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 give	cc
8	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	9 give	advmod
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 eat	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 advice	nmod:poss
11	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 comfort	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 comfort	cc
14	comfort	comfort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 eat	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 comfort	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 sorrow	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sorrow	nmod:poss
18	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comfort	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 do	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 do	cc
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obl:unmarked
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 do	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 eat	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 Vasilissa	det
27	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 work	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Vasilissa	case
29	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 do	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	the doll			then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	infinitive	the doll not said here	feed's advice			afterwards property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
3	comfort	infinitive	the doll not said here	feed	feed's sorrow			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
4	do	would	doll	all Vasilissa's work		day	for feed	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
5	sorrow		feed					nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
6	work		all Vasilissa					nom work «act intransitive»: 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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