Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 33

And she asked a poor old woman to take her home and to give her food until her father came back; she said to the old woman, “Mother, sitting here idle makes me feel dull.

Who acts: Vasilísa, father, sitting · What happens: ask, take, give, come back, say, sit · To what, where: poor old woman, home, food, old woman, Vasilísa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilísa, father, sitting), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 asked	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 take	mark
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 home	nmod:poss
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 give	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 give	mark
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 take	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 food	nmod:poss
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
17	until	until	SCONJ	_	20 came	mark
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 give	advcl
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 woman	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 woman	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 woman	amod
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Mother	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 Mother	punct
31	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 woman	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sitting	punct
33	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 makes	csubj
34	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 sitting	advmod
35	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sitting	xcomp
36	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 said	parataxis
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 makes	obj
38	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 makes	xcomp
39	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 feel	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Vasilísa		a poor old woman			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	Vasilísa not said here	Vasilísa's home				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme
3	give	to-infinitive	Vasilísa not said here	Vasilísa's food				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
4	come back	past	Vasilísa's father					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	Vasilísa		the old woman and Mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient clause=Topic
6	sit in a quote	gerund				here	idle property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	make in a quote	present	sitting	Vasilísa				tree rules
8	feel in a quote	infinitive	Vasilísa not said here				dull property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 33

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 33