Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 17

And so they went on kissing each other from the greatest to the smallest, till the turn came to the hare.

Who acts: Tsarevko, turn · What happens: go, kiss, come · To what, where: each, greatest

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarevko, turn), 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	_	4 went	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
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	on	on	ADP	_	6 kissing	case
6	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	obl
7	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	6 kissing	obj
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 greatest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 greatest	det
11	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 kissing	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 smallest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 smallest	det
14	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 greatest	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 turn	det
18	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 hare	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hare	det
22	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Tsarevko				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kiss	gerund		each	the greatest		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent
3	come	past	the turn			to the hare	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hare=Initial_Location

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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