Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 55

They went on and on and on till it began to grow dark, when they came to a large forest.

Who acts: brothers, millstone · What happens: go on, begin, grow, come · To what, where: large forest

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, millstone), 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	_	2 went	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 on	cc
7	on	on	ADV	_	5 on	conj
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 began	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 grow	mark
12	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grow	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 came	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 forest	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 forest	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 forest	amod
21	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	brothers = brother			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	millstone			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	grow	to-infinitive	millstone not said here		dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	brothers = brother	a large forest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location

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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