--- title: And she asked a poor old woman to take her home and to give her food… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And she asked a poor old woman to take her home and to give her food until her father came back; she said to the old woman, “Mother, sitting here idle makes me feel dull. Who acts: Vasilísa, father, sitting. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 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Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilísa, father, sitting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:15:33 # text = And she asked a poor old woman to take her home and to give her food until her father came back; she said to the old woman, “Mother, sitting here idle makes me feel dull. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 until until SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 21 back back ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 “ " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 csubj _ _ 34 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 35 idle idle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 36 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Vasilísa | | a poor old woman | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Vasilísa *not said here* | Vasilísa's home | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | | 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | Vasilísa *not said here* | Vasilísa's food | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 4 | **come back** | past | Vasilísa's father | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Vasilísa | | the old woman and Mother | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **sit** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | here | | idle *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **make** *in a quote* | present | sitting | Vasilísa | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **feel** *in a quote* | infinitive | Vasilísa *not said here* | | | | | dull *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/15/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/15/34/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/15/)