Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 31

They went on and on, they went a short way and they went a long way, and at last they came to a forest so dark that they could see neither earth nor sky.

Who acts: father · What happens: go, come, see · To what, where: short way, long way, last, earth

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 went	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 came	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 forest	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 forest	det
26	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 dark	advmod
28	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 came	advcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 see	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 dark	advcl
33	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	34 earth	cc:preconj
34	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obj
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	36 sky	cc
36	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 earth	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	father				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	father	a short way			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	go	past	father	a long way			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4	come	past	father		last	to a forest	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location
5	see	could	father	earth nor sky			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer earth=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: «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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