Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 28

So on they went, and they had not gone very far when they saw an apple-tree growing by the wayside, and on it were apples so beautiful that words cannot describe them.

Who acts: huntsmen, apple tree, tree, words · What happens: go, not go, see, grow, be, not describe · To what, where: apple tree, apples, huntsmen

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (huntsmen, apple tree, tree, words), 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	_	4 went	advmod
2	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gone	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gone	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 gone	advmod
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 went	conj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 far	advmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 gone	advmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 saw	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 far	advcl
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tree	det
17	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tree	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 apple	punct
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obj
20	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 tree	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 wayside	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wayside	det
23	wayside	wayside	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 growing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 apples	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 apples	cc
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 apples	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 apples	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 apples	cop
29	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 beautiful	advmod
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 apples	amod
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 describe	mark
33	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 describe	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 describe	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 describe	advmod
36	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 beautiful	advcl
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 describe	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	huntsmen = huntsman				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not go	past · perfect	huntsmen = huntsman			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	huntsmen = huntsman	a apple tree			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
4	grow	gerund	a apple tree not said here			by the wayside	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wayside=Location
5	is	past	tree		apples		tree rules
6	not describe	can	words	huntsmen = huntsman			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=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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