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title: Vasilísa put the rest of the dinner in front of the doll and said: “… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Vasilísa put the rest of the dinner in front of the doll and said: “Dollet, eat it up and listen to my woe. Who acts: Vasilísa. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 121

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Vasilísa put the rest of the dinner in front of the doll and said: “Dollet, eat it up and listen to my woe.

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**Who acts:** Vasilísa · **What happens:** put, say, eat up, listen · **To what, where:** rest, front, Dollet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilísa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:14:121
# text = Vasilísa put the rest of the dinner in front of the doll and said: “Dollet, eat it up and listen to my woe.
1	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Dollet	dollet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Vasilísa | the rest of the dinner |  | front of the doll |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rest=Theme in front=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Vasilísa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **eat up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Dollet |  |  |  | rest *obj* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to my woe | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to woe=Theme |

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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 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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