Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 75

Ivan began playing on his fife, and forthwith they all fell a-dancing.

Who acts: Ivan, pancakes · What happens: begin, play, fall · To what, where: fife, dancing

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, pancakes), 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	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 began	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 fife	case
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 playing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fell	cc
9	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	_	12 fell	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 they	det
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dancing	det
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 a	punct
15	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Ivan				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	play	gerund	Ivan not said here		Ivan's fife		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	pancakes = pancake	a dancing		forthwith property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient dancing=Result

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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