Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 132

Well, they walked and walked; not one year only, nor two years, but all but three; and they chose the places they wanted, and came to an agreement as to where the flowing of each one should begin.

Who acts: life, one · What happens: walk, choose, want, come, flow, begin · To what, where: all, places, agreement

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (life, one), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 walked	cc
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 year	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 year	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 year	nummod
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl:unmarked
11	only	only	ADV	_	10 year	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 years	punct
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	15 years	cc
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 all	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 all	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 walked	obl
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 three	cc
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 all	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 chose	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 chose	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 chose	nsubj
24	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 places	det
26	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 chose	obj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wanted	nsubj
28	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 places	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 came	cc
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 chose	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 agreement	case
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 agreement	det
34	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 flowing	mark
36	to	to	ADP	_	35 as	fixed
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 flowing	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 flowing	det
39	flowing	flow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 came	advcl
40	of	of	SCONJ	_	44 begin	mark
41	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	42 one	det
42	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 begin	nsubj
43	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 begin	aux
44	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 flowing	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	walk	past	life	all		year	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past	life not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	choose	past	life	the places			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	want	past	life	the places not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot place=Theme
5	come	past	life not said here		a agreement		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to agreement=Initial_Location
6	flow	gerund	life not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	begin	should	each one				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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