Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 35

They went on still farther till they came upon a golden bed in the highway, full of white feathers so soft and cosy that words cannot describe it.

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

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, 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	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 farther	advmod
5	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 went	advmod
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	2 went	advcl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 bed	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bed	det
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bed	amod
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 highway	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 highway	det
15	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 full	punct
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 highway	amod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 feathers	case
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 feathers	amod
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 full	obl
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 soft	advmod
22	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 full	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cosy	cc
24	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 soft	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 soft	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	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	huntsmen = huntsman			far property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	huntsmen = huntsman		the highway	upon a golden bed	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bed=Location
3	not describe	can	words	highway			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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