Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 17

They couldn't strike a light themselves anyhow, and whenever they brought one in from a neighbor's, it went out as soon as it came into the room.

Who acts: stepsisters, light · What happens: not strike, bring, go out, come · To what, where: light, one, neighbor, room

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepsisters, light), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 strike	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 strike	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 strike	advmod
4	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strike	obj
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 strike	obl
8	anyhow	anyhow	ADV	_	4 strike	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 brought	cc
11	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 brought	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brought	nsubj
13	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strike	parataxis
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 brought	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 neighbor	case
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 neighbor	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 neighbor	det
18	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obl
19	's	's	PART	_	18 neighbor	case
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	conj
23	out	out	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 soon	advmod
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 went	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 came	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 soon	advcl
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 room	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 room	det
31	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 strike	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not strike	could	stepsisters = stepsister	a light		stepsisters = stepsister obl; anyhow property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient
2	bring	past	stepsisters = stepsister	one	a neighbor	whenever property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	go out	past	light			out, soon property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	light		the room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=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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