Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 54

Vasilísa often ate nothing herself, and kept the tastiest morsels for the doll; and when at night they had all gone to bed, she used to lock herself up in her cellaret below, give the doll food to eat, and say, “Dollet, eat and listen to my misery.

Who acts: Vasilísa, morsels, VASILÍSA · What happens: eat, keep, go, use, lock up, give · To what, where: nothing, tastiest morsels, bed, VASILÍSA, cellaret, doll food · Speech: someone speaks here

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, morsels, 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	3 ate	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 ate	advmod
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 ate	obj
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 nothing	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kept	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kept	cc
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 morsels	det
10	tastiest	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 morsels	amod
11	morsels	morsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kept	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 doll	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 doll	det
14	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 morsels	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 gone	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gone	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 gone	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 night	case
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gone	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gone	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gone	aux
22	all	all	ADV	_	23 gone	advmod
23	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 ate	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 bed	case
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gone	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 used	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 used	nsubj
28	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 lock	mark
30	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 used	xcomp
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 lock	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 lock	compound:prt
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 cellaret	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 cellaret	nmod:poss
35	cellaret	cellaret	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lock	obl
36	below	below	ADV	_	35 cellaret	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 give	punct
38	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 lock	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 food	det
40	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 food	compound
41	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 give	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 eat	mark
43	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 food	acl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 say	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 say	cc
46	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ate	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Dollet	punct
48	“	"	PUNCT	_	49 Dollet	punct
49	Dollet	dollet	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 say	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 eat	punct
51	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	46 say	parataxis
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 listen	cc
53	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	51 eat	conj
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 misery	case
55	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 misery	nmod:poss
56	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 listen	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Vasilísa	nothing			often property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	keep	past	Vasilísa not said here	the tastiest morsels			for the doll	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Theme
3	go	past · perfect	morsels = morsel		bed	night	all property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
4	use	past	VASILÍSA = vasilísa					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	lock up	to-infinitive	VASILÍSA = vasilísa not said here	VASILÍSA = vasilísa	VASILÍSA's cellaret			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
6	give	infinitive	VASILÍSA = vasilísa not said here	the doll food				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
7	eat	to-infinitive	VASILÍSA = vasilísa not said here	the doll food not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	say speech: assert	infinitive	Vasilísa not said here	Dollet				tree rules
9	eat in a quote	infinitive						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	listen in a quote	infinitive					to my misery	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to misery=Theme

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 54

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 54