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title: The doll fed, and its eyes began to glow just like a couple of candl… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The doll fed, and its eyes began to glow just like a couple of candles. Who acts: doll, eyes. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 61

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The doll fed, and its eyes began to glow just like a couple of candles.

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**Who acts:** doll, eyes · **What happens:** feed, begin, glow · **To what, where:** couple

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doll, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:30:61
# text = The doll fed, and its eyes began to glow just like a couple of candles.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	glow	glow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | participle | the doll |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past | doll's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **glow** | to-infinitive | doll's eyes *not said here* | a couple of candles |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent couple=Theme |

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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.

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**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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