Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 53

They flew on and on, they flew till they came to the eagle's uncle.

Who acts: bones · What happens: fly, come

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 (bones), 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 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 flew	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 uncle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 eagle	det
14	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 uncle	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 eagle	case
16	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	fly	past	bones = bone		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	past	bones = bone		tree rules
3	come	past	bones = bone	to the eagle's uncle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to uncle=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/53/