--- title: Well, they walked and walked; not one year only, nor two years, but… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Well, they walked and walked; not one year only, nor two years, but all but three; and they chose the places they wanted, and came to an agreement as to where the flowing of each one should begin. Who acts: life, one. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», C --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/132/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/) / 132 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 132 Well, they walked and walked; not one year only, nor two years, but all but three; and they chose the places they wanted, and came to an agreement as to where the flowing of each one should begin. **Who acts:** life, one · **What happens:** walk, choose, want, come, flow, begin · **To what, where:** all, places, agreement This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (life, one), 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:pg22373:38:132 # text = Well, they walked and walked; not one year only, nor two years, but all but three; and they chose the places they wanted, and came to an agreement as to where the flowing of each one should begin. 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 _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 15 cc _ _ 14 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 obl _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 agreement agreement NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 35 fixed _ _ 37 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 39 advmod _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 flowing flow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 40 of of SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | life | all | | | year | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | past | life *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **choose** | past | life | the places | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 4 | **want** | past | life | the places *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot place=Theme | | 5 | **come** | past | life *not said here* | | | a agreement | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to agreement=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **flow** | gerund | life *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **begin** | should | each one | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/131/) - next →: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/133/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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