Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 89

Then they went on farther, and lo! the gnat was marching with his host, and so vast was it that no eye could take it all in.

Who acts: mice, gnat, eye · What happens: go, march, be, take · To what, where: farther, Thanks

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 (mice, gnat, eye), 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	ADP	_	5 farther	case
5	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 marching	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 marching	cc
8	lo	lo	INTJ	_	13 marching	discourse
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 lo	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gnat	det
11	gnat	gnat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 marching	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 marching	aux
13	marching	march	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 host	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 host	nmod:poss
16	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 marching	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 vast	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 vast	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 vast	advmod
20	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	parataxis
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 it	cop
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 vast	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 take	mark
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 eye	det
25	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 vast	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	obj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 it	det
30	in	in	ADV	_	27 take	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	mice = mouse		farther	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on far=Location
2	march	past · progressive	the gnat				with gnat's host	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past		Thanks				tree rules
4	take	could	no eye	Thanks				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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