Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 158

Page 160--By-and-bye amended to By-and-by--"By-and-by she put out the lights ..."

Who acts: word, bye · What happens: amend, put out, page · To what, where: bye, Page

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, bye), 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	Page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl:unmarked
2	160	160	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Page	flat
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 bye	punct
4	By	by	ADP	_	8 bye	case
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 bye	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bye	cc
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 and	punct
8	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Page	nmod
9	amended	amend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bye	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 amended	obl
11	By	by	ADP	_	9 amended	obl
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 By	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 by	cc
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 by	punct
15	by	by	ADP	_	11 By	conj
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
18	By	by	SCONJ	_	24 put	mark
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 By	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 put	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	nsubj
24	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 put	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lights	det
27	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 put	obj
28	...	...	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	amend	participle		bye not said here	tree rules
2	put out in a quote	past	word	Page by bye	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent light=Goal
3	page		bye		nom page «communication transitive»: by=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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