Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 47

Presently the candle wanted snuffing; one of the stepdaughters took the snuffers, as if she were going to clear the wick, but instead of doing so, in obedience to her mother's orders, she snuffed the candle out, pretending to do so by accident.

Who acts: candle, one, mother · What happens: want, snuff, take, go, clear, do · To what, where: snuffers, wick, obedience, candle

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 (candle, one, mother), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 candle	det
3	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	snuffing	snuff	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 wanted	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 took	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 stepdaughters	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stepdaughters	det
10	stepdaughters	stepdaughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 snuffers	det
13	snuffers	snuffer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 going	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 going	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 going	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 going	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 going	aux
19	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 took	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 clear	mark
21	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 going	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wick	det
23	wick	wick	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 clear	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 doing	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 doing	cc
26	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 doing	mark
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 instead	fixed
28	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 took	advcl
29	so	so	ADV	_	28 doing	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 obedience	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 obedience	case
32	obedience	obedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 doing	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	37 orders	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mother	nmod:poss
35	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 orders	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 mother	case
37	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 obedience	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 snuffed	punct
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 snuffed	nsubj
40	snuffed	snuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 candle	det
42	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 snuffed	obj
43	out	out	ADP	_	40 snuffed	compound:prt
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 pretending	punct
45	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 snuffed	advcl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 do	mark
47	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 pretending	xcomp
48	so	so	ADV	_	47 do	advmod
49	by	by	ADP	_	50 accident	case
50	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 do	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	the candle			presently property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	snuff not said to happen	gerund	the candle not said here				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	past	one of the stepdaughters	the snuffers			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snuffer=Theme
4	go a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	candle				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	clear	to-infinitive	candle not said here	the wick			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wick=Source
6	do	gerund	one of the stepdaughters not said here		obedience to candle's mother's orders		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	snuff out	past	candle	the candle			tree rules
8	pretend	gerund	candle not said here				tree rules
9	do	to-infinitive	candle not said here			by accident	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	order		candle's mother				nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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