Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 69
The mother put all the fires out in the entire house, and left only one candle burning where the maidens were at work, and herself went to sleep.
Who acts: mother, one candle, maidens, maiden · What happens: put, leave, burn, be, go · To what, where: fires, entire house, one candle, work, sleep
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, one candle, maidens, maiden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 fires | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fires | det |
| 6 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 10 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 one | advmod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 candle | nummod |
| 17 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obj |
| 18 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 candle | acl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 work | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 maidens | det |
| 21 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 work | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 work | cop |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 work | case |
| 24 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 burning | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 27 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 sleep | case |
| 30 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the mother | all fires | the entire house | out property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fire=Theme in house=Destination | ||
| 2 | leave | past | the mother not said here | one candle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | one candle not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the maidens | work | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | past | maiden | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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