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title: One candle went out and then another, and he lighted the third, and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One candle went out and then another, and he lighted the third, and lay down at the right-hand side of the Holy Gates. Who acts: One candle, candle. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 111

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One candle went out and then another, and he lighted the third, and lay down at the right-hand side of the Holy Gates.

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**Who acts:** One candle, candle · **What happens:** go out, light, lay down · **To what, where:** third, hand side

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One candle, candle), 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:pg62509:21:111
# text = One candle went out and then another, and he lighted the third, and lay down at the right-hand side of the Holy Gates.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lighted	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	27	compound	_	_
27	Gates	Gates	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | One candle |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **light** | past | candle | the third |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Product |
| 3 | **lay down** | infinitive | candle *not said here* |  |  | the hand side of the Holy Gates |  | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at side=Destination |

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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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