Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 115

He walked and walked, for three whole days did he walk, and then he reached a great forest, dark and dense--impossible even to see the sky from within it!

Who acts: Petrusha, three whole days · What happens: walk, reach, see · To what, where: great forest, sky

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petrusha, three whole days), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 walked	cc
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 walk	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 walk	mark
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 days	amod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 walk	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 walk	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 walk	nsubj
12	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 walked	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reached	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 reached	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 reached	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reached	nsubj
17	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 forest	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 forest	amod
20	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reached	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dark	punct
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 forest	amod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dense	cc
24	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dark	conj
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 impossible	punct
26	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dark	conj
27	even	even	ADV	_	29 see	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 impossible	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sky	det
31	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 it	case
33	within	within	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	obl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	walk	past	Petrusha				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past	Petrusha not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	walk	past · do-support	three whole days				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reach	past	Petrusha	a great forest		then	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent forest=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	Petrusha not said here	the sky	sky		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sky=Stimulus

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.

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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