Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 47
Vasilísa was the fairest damsel in the entire village, and the stepmother and the sisters envied her therefore.
Who acts: Vasilísa, stepmother · What happens: be, envy · To what, where: fairest damsel, entire village, VASILÍSA
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilísa, stepmother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 damsel | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 damsel | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 damsel | det |
| 4 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 damsel | amod |
| 5 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 village | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 village | det |
| 8 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 village | amod |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 damsel | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 envied | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 envied | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stepmother | det |
| 13 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 envied | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sisters | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sisters | det |
| 16 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stepmother | conj |
| 17 | envied | envy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 damsel | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 envied | obj |
| 19 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 17 envied | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 damsel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Vasilísa | the fairest damsel | the entire village | tree rules | |||
| 2 | envy | past | the stepmother and the sisters | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | therefore property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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