Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 54

The old woman brought the Tsar the shirts, and Vasilísa washed and combed herself, dressed herself, and sat down at the window, and waited.

Who acts: old woman, Vasilísa · What happens: bring, wash, comb, dress, sit down, wait · To what, where: shirts, Tsar, Vasilísa, window

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 (old woman, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tsar	det
6	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shirts	det
8	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brought	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 washed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 washed	cc
11	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 washed	nsubj
12	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 combed	cc
14	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 washed	conj
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 combed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dressed	punct
17	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 washed	conj
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 dressed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sat	cc
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	parataxis
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 sat	compound:prt
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 window	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 window	det
25	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 waited	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 waited	cc
28	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sat	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	bring	past	the old woman	the shirts	the Tsar		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Destination shirt=Theme
2	wash	past	Vasilísa				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	comb	past	Vasilísa not said here	Vasilísa			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
4	dress	past	Vasilísa not said here	Vasilísa			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
5	sit down	past				the window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
6	wait	past					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 15, sentence 54

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 54