--- title: One evening the stepmother gave out their work to the three girls; o… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: One evening the stepmother gave out their work to the three girls; one she set to lace-making, another to knitting socks, and the third, Vasilissa, to weaving; and each of them had her allotted amount to do. Who acts: stepmother, one, each, allotted amount. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/44/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/) / 44 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 44 One evening the stepmother gave out their work to the three girls; one she set to lace-making, another to knitting socks, and the third, Vasilissa, to weaving; and each of them had her allotted amount to do. **Who acts:** stepmother, one, each, allotted amount, girl · **What happens:** give out, set, weave, have, allot, do · **To what, where:** work, three girls, lace making, allotted amount 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 (stepmother, one, each, allotted amount), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:30:44 # text = One evening the stepmother gave out their work to the three girls; one she set to lace-making, another to knitting socks, and the third, Vasilissa, to weaving; and each of them had her allotted amount to do. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nsubj _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 18 lace lace NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 making making NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 20 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 knitting knitting NOUN NN _ 25 compound _ _ 25 socks sock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Vasilissa Vasilissa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 to to SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 weaving weave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 40 nsubj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nmod _ _ 40 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 allotted allot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 amod _ _ 43 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give out** | past | the stepmother | stepmother's work | the three girls | | evening | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent work=Theme to girl=Recipient | | 2 | **set** | infinitive | one | lace making | | | | to knitting socks | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient making=Result | | 3 | **weave** | gerund | one *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | each | girl's allotted amount | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **allot** | participle | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | girl's allotted amount *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **work** | | stepmother | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **amount** | | girl | | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/45/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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