Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 24

Immediately the youth and the fair maiden found themselves on the shore of the lake, and until they reached the high road they kept on walking backwards.

Who acts: youth, instructions, high road · What happens: find, reach, keep, walk · To what, where: instructions, shore, high road

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (youth, instructions, high road), 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	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	8 found	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 maiden	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maiden	det
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 maiden	amod
7	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 youth	conj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 found	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 shore	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shore	det
12	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 lake	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lake	det
15	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shore	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reached	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 reached	cc
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	20 reached	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 reached	nsubj
20	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 road	det
22	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 road	amod
23	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kept	nsubj
25	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 road	acl:relcl
26	on	on	SCONJ	_	27 walking	mark
27	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 kept	xcomp
28	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	27 walking	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	the youth and the fair maiden	instructions = instruction	the shore of the lake	immediately property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic
2	reach	past	instructions = instruction	the high road			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent road=Theme
3	keep	past	instructions = instruction	the high road not said here			tree rules
4	walk	gerund	the high road not said here			backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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