Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 123

Then Ivan played them a parting song, till the parson and his wife fell down to the ground, dead-beat, with their tongues lolling out of their mouths; and then he put his fife into his breast-pocket, and wandered forth into the wide world.

Who acts: Ivan, wife, tongues · What happens: play, fall down, loll, put, wander · To what, where: ears, mouths, fife, breast pocket, wide world

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 (Ivan, wife, tongues), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 played	advmod
2	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 played	nsubj
3	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 played	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
6	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 song	compound
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 parson	punct
9	till	till	ADP	_	11 parson	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 parson	det
11	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fell	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 played	conj
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 fell	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 beat	punct
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 beat	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 dead	punct
23	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ground	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tongues	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 tongues	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tongues	nmod:poss
27	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fell	obl
28	lolling	loll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 tongues	acl
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 mouths	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 mouths	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mouths	nmod:poss
32	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lolling	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 put	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 put	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 put	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 put	nsubj
37	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 played	conj
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 fife	nmod:poss
39	fife	fife	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 put	obj
40	into	into	ADP	_	44 pocket	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 pocket	nmod:poss
42	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 pocket	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 breast	punct
44	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 put	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 wandered	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 wandered	cc
47	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 played	conj
48	forth	forth	ADV	_	47 wandered	advmod
49	into	into	ADP	_	52 world	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 world	det
51	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 world	amod
52	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 wandered	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	Ivan	ears = ear		till the parson; then		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary song=Theme
2	fall down	past	parson's wife				to the ground; with ears's tongues; down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
3	loll	gerund	ears's tongues not said here		ears's mouths			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out mouth=Location
4	put	past	Ivan	parson's fife	parson's breast pocket	then		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fife=Goal
5	wander	past	Ivan not said here		the wide world		forth property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into world=Destination

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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