Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 27

But the bullock went on at his old pace: every little while they went a little mile, and jolted so that they nearly tumbled off.

Who acts: bullock, woods · What happens: go on, go, jolt, tumble off · To what, where: little, little mile

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 (bullock, woods), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bullock	det
3	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 pace	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pace	nmod:poss
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pace	amod
9	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 little	punct
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 little	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	obl
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 went	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mile	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mile	amod
18	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 jolted	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 jolted	cc
21	jolted	jolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	conj
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 tumbled	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tumbled	nsubj
25	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	26 tumbled	advmod
26	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 jolted	advcl
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 tumbled	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the bullock	every little	at Tsar's old pace	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at pace=Location
2	go	past	woods = wood	a little mile		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme
3	jolt	participle	the bullock not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	tumble off	past	woods = wood		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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