Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 109

A splinter of fir was burning in the cresset, and the fire was lighted in the stove.

Who acts: splinter · What happens: burn, light · To what, where: cresset, fire, stove

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (splinter), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 splinter	det
2	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burning	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fir	case
4	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 splinter	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 burning	aux
6	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cresset	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cresset	det
9	cresset	cresset	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burning	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lighted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lighted	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lighted	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lighted	aux:pass
15	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 burning	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 stove	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stove	det
18	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lighted	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 burning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · progressive	a splinter of fir			the cresset			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cresset=Location
2	light	past · passive		the fire		the stove			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

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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