Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 141

So they all burst upon him and began to blow out his candle, to damp it, but the flame lit all the brighter.

Who acts: hands, flame · What happens: burst, begin, blow out, damp, light · To what, where: candle

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, 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 (hands, flame), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 burst	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burst	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 they	det
4	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burst	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burst	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 blow	mark
10	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 blow	compound:prt
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 candle	nmod:poss
13	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blow	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 damp	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 damp	mark
16	damp	damp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 blow	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 damp	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lit	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 lit	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flame	det
21	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lit	nsubj
22	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burst	conj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 brighter	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 brighter	det
25	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 lit	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	burst	past	hands = hand		upon hostess	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
2	begin	past	hands = hand not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	blow out	to-infinitive	hands = hand not said here	hostess's candle		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent candle=Patient
4	damp	to-infinitive	hands = hand not said here	candle		tree rules
5	light	past	the flame			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 141

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 141