Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 38

They sailed a short distance and they sailed a long distance, till at last they came to another tsardom and another empire.

Who acts: uncles · What happens: sail, come · To what, where: short distance, long distance, tsardom

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uncles), 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 sailed	nsubj
2	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 distance	det
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 distance	amod
5	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sailed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sailed	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sailed	nsubj
8	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sailed	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 distance	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 distance	amod
11	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sailed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 last	punct
13	till	till	ADP	_	15 last	case
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sailed	advcl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 last	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 tsardom	case
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 tsardom	det
20	tsardom	tsardom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 empire	cc
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 empire	det
23	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tsardom	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sail	past	uncles = uncle	a short distance		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory
2	sail	past	uncles = uncle	a long distance		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory
3	come	past	uncles = uncle		another tsardom and another empire	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tsardom=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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