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title: They went on still farther till they came upon a golden bed in the h… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They went on still farther till they came upon a golden bed in the highway, full of white feathers so soft and cosy that words cannot describe it. Who acts: huntsmen, words. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 35

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They went on still farther till they came upon a golden bed in the highway, full of white feathers so soft and cosy that words cannot describe it.

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**Who acts:** huntsmen, words · **What happens:** go on, come, not describe · **To what, where:** highway

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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, 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:pg29672:4:35
# text = They went on still farther till they came upon a golden bed in the highway, full of white feathers so soft and cosy that words cannot describe it.
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	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	cosy	cosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  | the highway |  | upon a golden bed | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bed=Location |
| 3 | **not** **describe** | can | words | highway |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: 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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