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title: Vasilissa bore everything with resignation, and every day grew plump… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 21

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Vasilissa bore everything with resignation, and every day grew plumper and prettier, while the stepmother and her daughters lost flesh and fell off in appearance from the effects of their own spite, notwithstanding that they always sat with folded hands like fine ladies.

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**Who acts:** Vasilissa, day, stepmother · **What happens:** bear, grow, lose, fall off, notwithstand, sit · **To what, where:** everything, plumper, flesh, own spite

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilissa, day, stepmother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:30:21
# text = Vasilissa bore everything with resignation, and every day grew plumper and prettier, while the stepmother and her daughters lost flesh and fell off in appearance from the effects of their own spite, notwithstanding that they always sat with folded hands like fine ladies.
1	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	resignation	resignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	plumper	plumper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	prettier	pretty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	40	advmod	_	_
40	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	amod	_	_
43	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
44	like	like	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past | Vasilissa | everything |  |  |  | with resignation | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | past | every day | plumper |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plumper=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | past | the stepmother and widow's daughters | flesh |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Eventuality |
| 4 | **fall off** | past | the stepmother and widow's daughters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the effects of stepmother's own spite; in appearance | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in appearance=Attribute |
| 5 | **notwithstand** | gerund | the stepmother and widow's daughters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sit** | past | stepmother |  |  |  |  | with folded hands like fine ladies; always *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **fold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **effect** |  |  | stepmother's own spite |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **spite** |  | stepmother |  |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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