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title: And she locked herself up in her little room, set to work, and never… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And she locked herself up in her little room, set to work, and never put her hands again on her lap until she had sewn a dozen shirts. Who acts: Vasilísa, little room. 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 53

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And she locked herself up in her little room, set to work, and never put her hands again on her lap until she had sewn a dozen shirts.

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**Who acts:** Vasilísa, little room · **What happens:** lock up, set, work, not put, sew · **To what, where:** Vasilísa, little room, hands, lap, dozen shirts

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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 (Vasilísa, little room), 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:pg62509:15:53
# text = And she locked herself up in her little room, set to work, and never put her hands again on her lap until she had sewn a dozen shirts.
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	locked	lock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	sewn	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock up** | past | Vasilísa | Vasilísa |  | Vasilísa's little room |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive | Vasilísa's little room *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | Vasilísa's little room *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **put** | infinitive | Vasilísa *not said here* | Vasilísa's hands |  | Vasilísa's lap | again |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on lap=Destination |
| 5 | **sew** | past · perfect | Vasilísa | dozen shirts |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Product |

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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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