Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 67
So one day the harvest season came and the stepmother gave all three maidens their task for the evening: one was to make lace and the other to sew a stocking, and Vasilísa was to spin.
Who acts: one day, stepmother, lace, Vasilísa · What happens: come, give, be, make, sew, task · To what, where: one, three maidens, lace, stocking
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 (one day, stepmother, lace, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 season | det |
| 5 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 season | compound |
| 6 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stepmother | det |
| 10 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 maidens | det |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 maidens | nummod |
| 14 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 task | nmod:poss |
| 16 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 maidens | appos |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 evening | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 evening | det |
| 19 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 came | obl |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 was | xcomp |
| 25 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 other | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 other | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lace | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 sew | mark |
| 30 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 other | xcomp |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 stocking | det |
| 32 | stocking | stocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sew | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 spin | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 spin | cc |
| 35 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 spin | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 spin | cop |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 spin | mark |
| 38 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | one day the harvest season | one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the stepmother | all three maidens | evening | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme | |||
| 3 | be | past | one day the harvest season not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | one day the harvest season not said here | lace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lace=Product | ||||
| 5 | sew | to-infinitive | lace not said here | a stocking | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stocking=Product | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Vasilísa | spin property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | task | stepmother | nom task «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 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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