Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 99

Swiftly they moved on their way, but the story that tells thereof moves still swifter.

Who acts: IVAN, story · What happens: move, tell · To what, where: way, swifter · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (IVAN, story), 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	Swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	3 moved	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 moved	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 moves	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 moves	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 moves	nsubj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 tells	nsubj
12	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 story	acl:relcl
13	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	12 tells	advmod
14	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 moved	conj
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 swifter	advmod
16	swifter	swifter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 moves	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	past	IVAN		IVAN's way	swiftly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on way=Trajectory
2	tell speech: assert	present	the story			thereof property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	move	present	the story	swifter			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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