Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 45

By-and-by she put out the lights in the house, leaving only one candle alight where the girls were working, and then she went to bed.

Who acts: girl, girls · What happens: put out, leave, work, go · To what, where: lights, house, one candle, bed

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, girls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 put	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 put	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 put	nsubj
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 put	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lights	det
10	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 put	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 leaving	punct
15	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 put	advcl
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 one	advmod
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 candle	nummod
18	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leaving	obj
19	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 leaving	xcomp
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 working	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 girls	det
22	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 working	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 working	aux
24	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 alight	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 went	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 put	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 bed	case
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	past	girl	the lights	the house			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent light=Theme in house=Destination
2	leave	gerund	girl not said here	one candle			alight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Theme
3	work	past · progressive	the girls					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	girl		bed	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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