Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 62

But the stepmother’s daughters nobody would look at; and the stepmother grew more evil than ever and answered all her suitors: “I will not give my youngest daughter before I give the elders.”

Who acts: daughters, stepmother · What happens: look, grow, answer, not give, give · To what, where: suitors, youngest daughter, elders · 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 (daughters, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 look	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stepmother	det
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughters	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 stepmother	case
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 look	nsubj
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 look	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 look	aux
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	8 look	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 grew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 grew	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stepmother	det
13	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grew	nsubj
14	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 look	parataxis
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 evil	advmod
16	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grew	xcomp
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 ever	case
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 evil	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 answered	cc
20	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 grew	conj
21	all	all	ADV	_	23 suitors	advmod
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 suitors	nmod:poss
23	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 answered	obj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 give	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 give	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 give	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 give	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 give	advmod
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 suitors	parataxis
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 daughter	nmod:poss
31	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 daughter	amod
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 give	iobj
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	35 give	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 give	nsubj
35	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 give	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 elders	det
37	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 give	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 look	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	would	the stepmother's daughters			nobody nsubj	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	grow	past	the stepmother			evil property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	the stepmother not said here	VASILÍSA's suitors			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent suitor=Eventuality
4	not give in a quote	future	the stepmother = stepmother		my youngest daughter		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
5	give in a quote	present	the stepmother = stepmother	the elders			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elder=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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 62