Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 136

In the depth of the night it flies into a garden, and lights it up as brightly as could a thousand burning fires.

Who acts: notice · What happens: fly, light up, burn · To what, where: depth, notice

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (notice), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 depth	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 depth	det
3	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flies	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depth	nmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flies	nsubj
8	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 garden	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flies	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lights	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lights	cc
14	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 flies	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lights	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 lights	compound:prt
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 brightly	advmod
18	brightly	brightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lights	xcomp
19	as	as	ADP	_	24 fires	case
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 fires	aux
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thousand	det
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 fires	nummod
23	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 fires	amod
24	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 brightly	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 flies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	present	notice		the depth of the night	into a garden	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in depth=Location
2	light up	present	notice not said here	notice		brightly property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
3	burn	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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