Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 44

One evening the stepmother gave out their work to the three girls; one she set to lace-making, another to knitting socks, and the third, Vasilissa, to weaving; and each of them had her allotted amount to do.

Who acts: stepmother, one, each, allotted amount, girl · What happens: give out, set, weave, have, allot, do · To what, where: work, three girls, lace making, allotted amount

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 (stepmother, one, each, allotted amount), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stepmother	det
4	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 work	nmod:poss
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 girls	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girls	det
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 girls	nummod
12	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 set	nsubj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 set	nsubj
16	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gave	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	20 making	mark
18	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 making	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 lace	punct
20	making	making	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 another	punct
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 making	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 socks	case
24	knitting	knitting	NOUN	_	25 socks	compound
25	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 set	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 third	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 third	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 third	det
29	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 set	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Vasilissa	punct
31	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 third	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 weaving	punct
33	to	to	SCONJ	_	34 weaving	mark
34	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 set	conj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 had	cc
37	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	40 had	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 each	nmod
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 amount	nmod:poss
42	allotted	allot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 amount	amod
43	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 do	mark
45	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 had	xcomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give out	past	the stepmother	stepmother's work	the three girls	evening		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent work=Theme to girl=Recipient
2	set	infinitive	one	lace making			to knitting socks	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient making=Result
3	weave	gerund	one not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	each	girl's allotted amount				tree rules
5	allot	participle						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
6	do	to-infinitive	girl's allotted amount not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	work		stepmother					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent
8	amount		girl					nom amount «possession 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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