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title: So on they went, and they had not gone very far when they saw an app… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So on they went, and they had not gone very far when they saw an apple-tree growing by the wayside, and on it were apples so beautiful that words cannot describe them. Who acts: huntsmen, apple tree, tree, words. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1, w
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 28

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So on they went, and they had not gone very far when they saw an apple-tree growing by the wayside, and on it were apples so beautiful that words cannot describe them.

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**Who acts:** huntsmen, apple tree, tree, words · **What happens:** go, not go, see, grow, be, not describe · **To what, where:** apple tree, apples, huntsmen

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (huntsmen, apple tree, tree, words), 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:pg29672:4:28
# text = So on they went, and they had not gone very far when they saw an apple-tree growing by the wayside, and on it were apples so beautiful that words cannot describe them.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wayside	wayside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | huntsmen *= huntsman* | a apple tree |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
| 4 | **grow** | gerund | a apple tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the wayside | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wayside=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | tree |  |  | apples |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **describe** | can | words | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=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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