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title: And in the spring they bleached the linen, and Vasilísa said to the… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And in the spring they bleached the linen, and Vasilísa said to the old mistress: “Go and sell the cloth, and keep the money for yourself.” Who acts: eyes, Vasilísa. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 38

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And in the spring they bleached the linen, and Vasilísa said to the old mistress: “Go and sell the cloth, and keep the money for yourself.”

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**Who acts:** eyes, Vasilísa · **What happens:** bleach, say, go, sell, keep · **To what, where:** linen, old mistress, cloth, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 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 (eyes, 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:pg62509:15:38
# text = And in the spring they bleached the linen, and Vasilísa said to the old mistress: “Go and sell the cloth, and keep the money for yourself.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bleached	bleach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sell	sell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bleach** | past | eyes *= eye* | the linen |  |  | spring |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent linen=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Vasilísa |  | the old mistress |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mistress=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sell** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the cloth |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the money |  |  |  | for the old mistress *= mistress* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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