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title: So one day the harvest season came and the stepmother gave all three… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So one day the harvest season came and the stepmother gave all three maidens their task for the evening: one was to make lace and the other to sew a stocking, and Vasilísa was to spin. Who acts: one day, stepmother, lace, Vasilísa. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 67

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So one day the harvest season came and the stepmother gave all three maidens their task for the evening: one was to make lace and the other to sew a stocking, and Vasilísa was to spin.

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**Who acts:** one day, stepmother, lace, Vasilísa · **What happens:** come, give, be, make, sew, task · **To what, where:** one, three maidens, lace, stocking

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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 (one day, stepmother, lace, 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:pg62509:14:67
# text = So one day the harvest season came and the stepmother gave all three maidens their task for the evening: one was to make lace and the other to sew a stocking, and Vasilísa was to spin.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
22	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	sew	sew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	stocking	stocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | one day  the harvest season | one |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | the stepmother | all three maidens |  |  | evening |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | one day  the harvest season *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | one day  the harvest season *not said here* | lace |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lace=Product |
| 5 | **sew** | to-infinitive | lace *not said here* | a stocking |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stocking=Product |
| 6 | **is** | past | Vasilísa |  |  |  |  | spin *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **task** |  | stepmother |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «act transitive»: 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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