Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 31

They went on a little farther till they came to a spring, and the water of that spring was so pure and clear that words cannot describe it.

Who acts: huntsmen, water, words · What happens: go, come, be, not describe · To what, where: water

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, water, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 farther	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 farther	obl
6	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 went	obl
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 spring	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 spring	det
12	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pure	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pure	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pure	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 spring	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 spring	det
19	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 water	nmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pure	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 pure	advmod
22	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 clear	cc
24	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pure	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 describe	mark
26	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 describe	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 describe	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 describe	advmod
29	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 pure	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 describe	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	huntsmen = huntsman				vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on far=Location
2	come	past	huntsmen = huntsman		spring		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the water of that spring			pure property	tree rules
4	be		the water of that spring not said here				tree rules
5	not describe	can	words	water			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: 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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