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description: Vasilísa often ate nothing herself, and kept the tastiest morsels for the doll; and when at night they had all gone to bed, she used to lock herself up in her cellaret below, give the doll food to eat, and say, “Dollet, eat and listen to my misery. Who acts: Vasilísa, morsels, VASILÍSA. A sentence o
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 54

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Vasilísa often ate nothing herself, and kept the tastiest morsels for the doll; and when at night they had all gone to bed, she used to lock herself up in her cellaret below, give the doll food to eat, and say, “Dollet, eat and listen to my misery.

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**Who acts:** Vasilísa, morsels, VASILÍSA · **What happens:** eat, keep, go, use, lock up, give · **To what, where:** nothing, tastiest morsels, bed, VASILÍSA, cellaret, doll food · **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, morsels, 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:pg62509:14:54
# text = Vasilísa often ate nothing herself, and kept the tastiest morsels for the doll; and when at night they had all gone to bed, she used to lock herself up in her cellaret below, give the doll food to eat, and say, “Dollet, eat and listen to my misery.
1	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	tastiest	tasty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	morsels	morsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	lock	lock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obj	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	cellaret	cellaret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	below	below	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	Dollet	dollet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	46	parataxis	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | Vasilísa | nothing |  |  |  | often *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Vasilísa *not said here* | the tastiest morsels |  |  |  | for the doll | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past · perfect | morsels *= morsel* |  |  | bed | night | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **use** | past | VASILÍSA *= vasilísa* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **lock up** | to-infinitive | VASILÍSA *= vasilísa* *not said here* | VASILÍSA *= vasilísa* |  | VASILÍSA's cellaret |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 6 | **give** | infinitive | VASILÍSA *= vasilísa* *not said here* | the doll food |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 7 | **eat** | to-infinitive | VASILÍSA *= vasilísa* *not said here* | the doll food *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Vasilísa *not said here* | Dollet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to my misery | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to misery=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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