Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 71

Then they clutched tight hold of the trees to stop themselves from dancing; but it was of no use, dance they must.

Who acts: bears, hold · What happens: clutch, stop, dance, be, hold · To what, where: tight hold, bears, trees

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 (bears, hold), 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 clutched	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clutched	nsubj
3	clutched	clutch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hold	amod
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clutched	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 trees	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stop	mark
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 clutched	advcl
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 stop	obj
12	from	from	SCONJ	_	13 dancing	mark
13	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 stop	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 use	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 use	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 use	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 use	cop
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 use	case
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 use	det
20	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clutched	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dance	punct
22	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 use	conj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 must	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 dance	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 clutched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	clutch	past	bears = bear	tight hold of the trees	then		vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	stop	to-infinitive	bears = bear not said here	bears = bear			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality themselves=Eventuality
3	dance	gerund	bears = bear not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	hold			of no use and dance	tree rules
5	hold			the trees			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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