Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 177
Then they went on and on again, and soon they were not very far from home.
Who acts: bridegrooms · What happens: go, not be · To what, where: home
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridegrooms), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 on | cc |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 on | conj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 home | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 home | cc |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 home | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 home | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 home | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 home | advmod |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 home | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | bridegrooms = bridegroom | then; again | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | bridegrooms = bridegroom | home | far, soon property | tree rules |
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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