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title: The mother put all the fires out in the entire house, and left only… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 69

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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.

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**Who acts:** mother, one candle, maidens, maiden · **What happens:** put, leave, burn, be, go · **To what, where:** fires, entire house, one candle, work, sleep

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:14:69
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	nsubj	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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