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title: I went to sleep and thought I saw two candles blazing in front of th… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I went to sleep and thought I saw two candles blazing in front of the images and two birds fluttering inside the hut.” Who acts: I, two candles, two birds. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 122

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I went to sleep and thought I saw two candles blazing in front of the images and two birds fluttering inside the hut.”

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**Who acts:** I, two candles, two birds · **What happens:** go, sleep, think, see, blaze, flutter · **To what, where:** two candles, front, hut · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, two candles, two birds), 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:pg62509:18:122
# text = I went to sleep and thought I saw two candles blazing in front of the images and two birds fluttering inside the hut.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | I | two candles |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer candle=Stimulus |
| 5 | **blaze** | gerund | two candles *not said here* |  |  | front of the images and two birds |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
| 6 | **flutter** | gerund | two birds *not said here* |  |  | the hut |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside hut=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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