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title: Then they went on farther, and lo! the gnat was marching with his ho… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they went on farther, and lo! the gnat was marching with his host, and so vast was it that no eye could take it all in. Who acts: mice, gnat, eye. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 89

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Then they went on farther, and lo! the gnat was marching with his host, and so vast was it that no eye could take it all in.

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**Who acts:** mice, gnat, eye · **What happens:** go, march, be, take · **To what, where:** farther, Thanks

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, 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 (mice, gnat, eye), 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:pg29672:25:89
# text = Then they went on farther, and lo! the gnat was marching with his host, and so vast was it that no eye could take it all in.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gnat	gnat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	marching	march	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
30	in	in	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | mice *= mouse* |  |  | farther | then |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on far=Location |
| 2 | **march** | past · progressive | the gnat |  |  |  |  | with gnat's host | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | Thanks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | could | no eye | Thanks |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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