Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 128

They'd have gone on fighting ever so much longer, only the cocks began to crow.

Who acts: tapers, cocks · What happens: go, fight, begin, crow

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tapers, cocks), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 fighting	mark
6	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gone	advcl
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 fighting	advmod
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 longer	advmod
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 fighting	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 cocks	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cocks	det
14	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 crow	mark
17	crow	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go	would · perfect	tapers = taper			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fight	gerund	tapers = taper not said here	ever	long property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	the cocks			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	crow	to-infinitive	the cocks not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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