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title: They went on and on, they measured and measured, and at last they we… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They went on and on, they measured and measured, and at last they were so tired that they could scarce draw one foot after the other. Who acts: They. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Nobles and Princes], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Nobles and Princes\], sentence 1

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They went on and on, they measured and measured, and at last they were so tired that they could scarce draw one foot after the other.

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**Who acts:** They · **What happens:** go, measure, be, scarce, draw · **To what, where:** last, one foot

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Nobles and Princes\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg29672:16:1
# text = They went on and on, they measured and measured, and at last they were so tired that they could scarce draw one foot after the other.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	measured	measure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	measured	measure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	scarce	scarce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **measure** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **measure** | past | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | they |  |  | last |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **scarce** | could | they |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **draw** | infinitive | they *not said here* | one foot |  |  | after the other |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |

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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.

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**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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