Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Nobles and Princes], sentence 1

They went on and on, they measured and measured, and at last they were so tired that they could scarce draw one foot after the other.

Who acts: They · What happens: go, measure, be, scarce, draw · To what, where: last, one foot

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Nobles and Princes]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They), 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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 measured	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 measured	nsubj
8	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 measured	cc
10	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 measured	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tired	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tired	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tired	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tired	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tired	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 tired	advmod
18	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 scarce	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 scarce	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 scarce	aux
22	scarce	scarce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tired	advcl
23	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 scarce	xcomp
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 foot	nummod
25	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 draw	obj
26	after	after	ADP	_	28 other	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 draw	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	They					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	measure	past	they					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	measure	past	they not said here					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	they		last		tired property	tree rules
5	scarce	could	they					tree rules
6	draw	infinitive	they not said here	one foot		after the other		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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