Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 49
Vasilísa, however, did all her work without complaining, and always grew more beautiful and plumper, while the stepmother and her daughters, out of sheer spite, grew thinner and uglier.
Who acts: Vasilísa, VASILÍSA · What happens: do, complain, grow, work · To what, where: work, stepmother, sheer spite
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, VASILÍSA), 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 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Vasilísa | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 work | advmod |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 work | nmod:poss |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 complaining | mark |
| 10 | complaining | complain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 did | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 grew | cc |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 grew | advmod |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | parataxis |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grew | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 plumper | cc |
| 18 | plumper | plumper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beautiful | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stepmother | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 stepmother | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stepmother | det |
| 22 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 daughters | cc |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 25 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stepmother | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 spite | punct |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 spite | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 spite | case |
| 29 | sheer | sheer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 spite | amod |
| 30 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 grew | punct |
| 32 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 grew | conj |
| 33 | thinner | thin | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 grew | xcomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 uglier | cc |
| 35 | uglier | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 thinner | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Vasilísa | VASILÍSA's work | however property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | complain speech: other | gerund | Vasilísa not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | the stepmother and VASILÍSA's daughters | sheer spite | always, beautiful property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out spite=Location | |||
| 4 | grow | past | thin property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | work | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | 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 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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