Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 43

So they went on together till they came to where three oaks stood all in a row.

Who acts: sons, three oaks · What happens: go, come, stand · To what, where: row

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, 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 (sons, three oaks), 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	So	so	ADV	_	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	ADP	_	5 together	case
5	together	together	ADV	_	3 went	obl
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	advcl
9	to	to	SCONJ	_	13 stood	mark
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 stood	advmod
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 oaks	nummod
12	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	advcl
14	all	all	ADV	_	13 stood	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 row	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 row	det
17	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	sons = son			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on together=Location
2	come	past	sons = son			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past	three oaks	a row	all property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=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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