Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 7

And on her deathbed the merchant's wife called her little daughter to her, took out from under the bed-clothes a doll, gave it to her, and said, "Listen, Vasilissa, dear; remember and obey these last words of mine.

Who acts: Listen · What happens: call, take out, give, say, remember, obey · To what, where: little daughter, child, deathbed, bed clothes, merchant, last words · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Listen), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 called	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 deathbed	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 deathbed	nmod:poss
4	deathbed	deathbed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 merchant	case
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deathbed	nmod
9	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 daughter	amod
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 called	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 called	parataxis
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 took	compound:prt
18	from	from	ADP	_	23 clothes	case
19	under	under	ADP	_	23 clothes	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 clothes	det
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 clothes	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 bed	punct
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	16 took	obl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 doll	det
25	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 clothes	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 said	cc
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 gave	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Listen	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 Listen	punct
36	Listen	Listen	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 said	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Vasilissa	punct
38	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Listen	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 dear	punct
40	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Listen	parataxis
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 remember	punct
42	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 called	conj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 obey	cc
44	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 remember	conj
45	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	47 words	det
46	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 words	amod
47	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 obey	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 mine	case
49	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 words	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past		child's little daughter	child	child's deathbed the merchant's wife	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	take out	past				the bed clothes and a doll	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from clothes=Initial_Location
3	give	past		merchant	child		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	Listen and Vasilissa				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	remember in a quote	infinitive					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	obey in a quote	infinitive		this last words of mine			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
7	word in a quote			mine			nom word «communication 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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