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title: In the depth of the night it flies into a garden, and lights it up a… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the depth of the night it flies into a garden, and lights it up as brightly as could a thousand burning fires. Who acts: notice. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 136

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In the depth of the night it flies into a garden, and lights it up as brightly as could a thousand burning fires.

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**Who acts:** notice · **What happens:** fly, light up, burn · **To what, where:** depth, notice

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (notice), 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:pg22373:48:136
# text = In the depth of the night it flies into a garden, and lights it up as brightly as could a thousand burning fires.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	lights	light	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	brightly	brightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | notice |  |  | the depth of the night |  | into a garden | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in depth=Location |
| 2 | **light up** | present | notice *not said here* | notice |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 3 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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