--- title: Well, they walked and walked till they reached a dark, dense forest. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Well, they walked and walked till they reached a dark, dense forest. Who acts: eyes. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/) / 20 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 20 Well, they walked and walked till they reached a dark, dense forest. **Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** walk, reach · **To what, where:** dark dense forest This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (eyes), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:35:20 # text = Well, they walked and walked till they reached a dark, dense forest. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 till till SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 dense dense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | eyes *= eye* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | past | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **reach** | past | eyes *= eye* | a dark dense forest | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent forest=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:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/21/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/)