Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 112

The parson's wife sat down on the bench to listen to him while he played; but immediately she leaped up from the bench and began to dance, and she danced with such hearty good-will that the place became too small for her.

Who acts: wife, parson, place · What happens: sit down, listen, play, leap up, begin, dance · To what, where: bench, parson

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, parson, place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parson	det
2	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 parson	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sat	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bench	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bench	det
9	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 listen	mark
11	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sat	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 listen	obl
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 played	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 played	nsubj
16	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 listen	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 leaped	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 leaped	cc
19	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	21 leaped	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 leaped	nsubj
21	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 leaped	compound:prt
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 bench	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bench	det
25	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leaped	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 began	cc
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 leaped	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 dance	mark
29	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 danced	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 danced	cc
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 danced	nsubj
33	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 hearty	case
35	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hearty	amod
36	hearty	hearty	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 danced	obl
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 will	amod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 good	punct
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 danced	advcl
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 became	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 place	det
42	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 became	nsubj
43	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 danced	advcl
44	too	too	ADV	_	45 small	advmod
45	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 became	xcomp
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 her	case
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 small	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the parson's wife		the bench		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
2	listen	to-infinitive	the parson's wife not said here	parson			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
3	play	past	parson				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	leap up	past	wife		the bench	immediately property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bench=Trajectory
5	begin	past	wife not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	dance	to-infinitive	wife not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	dance	past	wife			with such hearty	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	become	past	the place			small property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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.

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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