Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 69

Then he took up his fife and began to play, and the moment he began to play, everything around him began to dance; the wolves, and the hares, and the foxes, and the bears, nay, the very birds lit down upon the ground and began to dance, and Ivan went on laughing and playing all the time.

Who acts: PETER, moment, Ivan · What happens: take up, begin, play, dance, lit down, go · To what, where: fife, moment, everything, birds

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 (PETER, moment, Ivan), 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 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fife	nmod:poss
6	fife	fife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 play	mark
10	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 began	nsubj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 moment	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 play	mark
18	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 everything	punct
20	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 play	obj
21	around	around	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 everything	nmod
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 dance	mark
25	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 wolves	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wolves	det
28	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hares	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hares	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hares	det
32	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 foxes	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 foxes	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 foxes	det
36	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 bears	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 bears	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bears	det
40	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 nay	punct
42	nay	nay	INTJ	_	3 took	discourse
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 birds	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 birds	det
45	very	very	ADV	_	46 birds	advmod
46	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
47	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 birds	acl
48	down	down	ADP	_	47 lit	compound:prt
49	upon	upon	ADP	_	51 ground	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 ground	det
51	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 lit	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 began	cc
53	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 dance	mark
55	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 began	xcomp
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 went	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 went	cc
58	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 went	nsubj
59	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
60	on	on	SCONJ	_	61 laughing	mark
61	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	59 went	advcl
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 playing	cc
63	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	61 laughing	conj
64	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	66 time	det:predet
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 time	det
66	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 playing	obj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take up	past	PETER	PETER's fife	then	the wolves obl; the hares obl; the bears obl	tree rules
2	begin	past	PETER not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	play	to-infinitive	PETER not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	PETER	the moment not said here			tree rules
5	play	to-infinitive	PETER not said here	everything		around PETER	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
6	begin	past	the moment				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	dance	to-infinitive	the moment not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	lit down	participle		the birds not said here		upon the ground	tree rules
9	begin	past	PETER not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	dance	to-infinitive	PETER not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	go	past	Ivan				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	laugh	gerund	Ivan not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
13	play	gerund	Ivan not said here		time		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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