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description: And therefore it was that Vasilissa would never eat all her share of a meal, but always kept the most delicate morsel for her doll; and at night, when all were at rest, she would shut herself up in the narrow chamber[184] in which she slept, and feast her doll, saying[185] the while: Who acts: life,
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 25

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And therefore it was that Vasilissa would never eat all her share of a meal, but always kept the most delicate morsel for her doll; and at night, when all were at rest, she would shut herself up in the narrow chamber\[184\] in which she slept, and feast her doll, saying\[185\] the while:

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**Who acts:** life, girl · **What happens:** not be, keep, be, shut up, sleep, feast · **To what, where:** delicate morsel, rest, girl, narrow chamber, doll, 185 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (life, girl), 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:pg22373:30:25
# text = And therefore it was that Vasilissa would never eat all her share of a meal, but always kept the most delicate morsel for her doll; and at night, when all were at rest, she would shut herself up in the narrow chamber[184] in which she slept, and feast her doll, saying[185] the while:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
41	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obj	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	184	184	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	46	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	48	punct	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	obl	_	_
52	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	feast	feast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
57	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
60	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	185	185	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	62	punct	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | would · past | life |  |  |  |  | eat, therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past |  | the delicate morsel |  |  |  | for girl's doll; always *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | all rest |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shut up** | would | girl | girl |  | the narrow chamber | night |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 5 | **sleep** | past | girl |  |  | the narrow chamber |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location |
| 6 | **feast** | infinitive | life *not said here* | girl's doll |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | life *not said here* | 185  the while |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **share** |  | girl | a meal |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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