Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 53

And she locked herself up in her little room, set to work, and never put her hands again on her lap until she had sewn a dozen shirts.

Who acts: Vasilísa, little room · What happens: lock up, set, work, not put, sew · To what, where: Vasilísa, little room, hands, lap, dozen shirts

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, little room), 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 locked	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 locked	nsubj
3	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 locked	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 locked	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 room	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 locked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 set	punct
11	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 room	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 work	mark
13	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 set	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 put	cc
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 put	advmod
17	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 locked	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hands	nmod:poss
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 put	obj
20	again	again	ADV	_	17 put	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 lap	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 lap	nmod:poss
23	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 sewn	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sewn	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sewn	aux
27	sewn	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 put	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 dozen	det
29	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 shirts	nummod
30	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sewn	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 locked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lock up	past	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	Vasilísa's little room		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
2	set	infinitive	Vasilísa's little room not said here				tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	Vasilísa's little room not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not put	infinitive	Vasilísa not said here	Vasilísa's hands	Vasilísa's lap	again	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on lap=Destination
5	sew	past · perfect	Vasilísa	dozen shirts			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Product

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 53

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 53