Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 36

And Vasilissa took the old woman into her service, and as for the doll--to the end of her life she always carried it in her pocket."]

Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: take, carry, service · To what, where: old woman, service, life, pocket

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 took	cc
2	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 service	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 service	nmod:poss
9	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 doll	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 doll	cc
12	as	as	ADP	_	15 doll	case
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 doll	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 doll	det
15	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 carried	punct
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 end	det
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carried	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 life	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 end	nmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 carried	nsubj
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 carried	advmod
25	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 carried	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 pocket	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 pocket	nmod:poss
29	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carried	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
32	]	]	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Vasilissa	the old woman	Vasilissa's service		as the doll	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme into service=Destination
2	carry	past	Vasilissa	life	Vasilissa's pocket	to the end of Vasilissa's life	always property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to end=Destination
3	service		Vasilissa					nom service «act 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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