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title: Vasilísa, however, did all her work without complaining, and always… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Vasilísa, however, did all her work without complaining, and always grew more beautiful and plumper, while the stepmother and her daughters, out of sheer spite, grew thinner and uglier. Who acts: Vasilísa, VASILÍSA. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14, with its de
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 49

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Vasilísa, however, did all her work without complaining, and always grew more beautiful and plumper, while the stepmother and her daughters, out of sheer spite, grew thinner and uglier.

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**Who acts:** Vasilísa, VASILÍSA · **What happens:** do, complain, grow, work · **To what, where:** work, stepmother, sheer spite

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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, 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:pg62509:14:49
# text = Vasilísa, however, did all her work without complaining, and always grew more beautiful and plumper, while the stepmother and her daughters, out of sheer spite, grew thinner and uglier.
1	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	complaining	complain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	plumper	plumper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	sheer	sheer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
33	thinner	thin	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	xcomp	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	uglier	ugly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Vasilísa | VASILÍSA's work |  |  |  | however *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **complain** *speech: other* | gerund | Vasilísa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | past |  | the stepmother and VASILÍSA's daughters |  | sheer spite |  | always, beautiful *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out spite=Location |
| 4 | **grow** | past |  |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **work** |  | VASILÍSA *= vasilísa* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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 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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