Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 6

The elder brother went on and on and on till he came to a mountain so high that there cannot be a higher, and he began climbing it with his dog and his stick.

Who acts: elder brother, brother · What happens: go, come, be, begin, climb · To what, where: mountain

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brother, brother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 on	cc
7	on	on	ADV	_	5 on	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 on	cc
9	on	on	ADV	_	5 on	conj
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 mountain	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mountain	det
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 high	advmod
17	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 higher	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 be	mark
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 be	expl
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 be	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 be	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 higher	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 higher	det
24	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 came	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 began	nsubj
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
29	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 began	xcomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 climbing	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 dog	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 dog	nmod:poss
33	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 climbing	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 stick	cc
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 stick	nmod:poss
36	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 began	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the elder brother				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	brother		a mountain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
3	is	infinitive	brother not said here			high property	tree rules
4	begin	past	brother				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	climb	gerund	brother not said here	mountain		with brother's dog	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=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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