Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 25

Long time did he ride; at last he came to a mountain--a tremendously high mountain, and so steep that it was utterly impossible to get up it.

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: ride, come, be, get up · To what, where: last

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 time	amod
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ride	obl:unmarked
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ride	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ride	nsubj
5	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ride	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 mountain	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mountain	det
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 mountain	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mountain	det
16	tremendously	tremendously	ADV	_	17 high	advmod
17	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mountain	amod
18	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mountain	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 steep	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 steep	cc
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 steep	advmod
22	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 impossible	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 impossible	expl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 impossible	cop
26	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	27 impossible	advmod
27	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 steep	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 get	mark
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 impossible	csubj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 get	compound:prt
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 get	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ride	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past · do-support	Ivan			time		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	Ivan		last		to a mountain and a high mountain	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
3	is	past	Ivan not said here				impossible, utterly property	tree rules
4	get up	to-infinitive		last				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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