Restricting breadth with $graphLookup

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I have a collection of comments for a forum-like app; each comment has a parentId, and there can be comment threads of arbitrary length.

What I want to do is, starting from a root comment, get a single chain of sub-comments.

I tried something like this, but this returns a whole tree of comments:

    $graphLookup: {
      from: "comments",
      startWith: "$_id",
      connectFromField: "_id",
      connectToField: "parentId",
      as: "children",
      maxDepth: 10,
    }

Is there a way to limit the breadth to 1 at each level, so starting with the root comment, it finds only 1 child of the root, and then finds only 1 child of that comment, and so on?

As far as I can tell, I cannot do this with $graphLookup, but maybe there is a way to do this with other aggregation stages?

Or will I have to make multiple queries from my server?