Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 21

And every little while they went a little mile, and jolted so that they very nearly tumbled off.

Who acts: friends · What happens: go, jolt, tumble off · To what, where: little

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	obl
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 went	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mile	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mile	amod
9	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 jolted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 jolted	cc
12	jolted	jolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 went	conj
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 tumbled	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tumbled	nsubj
16	very	very	ADV	_	18 tumbled	advmod
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 tumbled	advmod
18	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 jolted	advcl
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 tumbled	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	friends = friend	every little		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme
2	jolt	participle	friends = friend not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	tumble off	participle	friends = friend		nearly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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