Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 111
One candle went out and then another, and he lighted the third, and lay down at the right-hand side of the Holy Gates.
Who acts: One candle, candle · What happens: go out, light, lay down · To what, where: third, hand side
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One candle, candle), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 candle | nummod |
| 2 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 another | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 another | advmod |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lighted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lighted | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lighted | nsubj |
| 11 | lighted | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 third | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 lighted | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lay | cc |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lighted | advcl |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 lay | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 side | det |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hand | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 right | punct |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 side | compound |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Gates | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Gates | det |
| 26 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 27 Gates | compound |
| 27 | Gates | Gates | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 side | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | One candle | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | light | past | candle | the third | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Product | ||||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | candle not said here | the hand side of the Holy Gates | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at side=Destination |
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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