Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 77

Those who were asleep got up and gave themselves up to dancing straightway; there were some who danced without trousers, and some who danced without smocks or shirts, and there were some who danced with nothing on at all, for dance they must when Ivan began a-playing.

Who acts: some, baskets · What happens: get up, give up, be, dance, begin, play · To what, where: baskets, straightway

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 (some, baskets), 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	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 got	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux:pass
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	amod
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Those	acl:relcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 got	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 gave	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 gave	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 straightway	case
12	dancing	dancing	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 straightway	det
13	straightway	straightway	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 were	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 were	expl
16	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Those	conj
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 were	nsubj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 danced	nsubj
19	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 some	acl:relcl
20	without	without	ADP	_	21 trousers	case
21	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 danced	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 danced	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 danced	cc
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 danced	nsubj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 danced	nsubj
26	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 danced	conj
27	without	without	ADP	_	28 smocks	case
28	smocks	smock	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 danced	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 shirts	cc
30	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 smocks	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 were	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 were	cc
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 were	expl
34	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 danced	conj
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 were	nsubj
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 danced	nsubj
37	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 some	acl:relcl
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 nothing	case
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	37 danced	obl
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 all	case
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 all	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 nothing	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dance	punct
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 dance	case
45	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 danced	obl
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 began	nsubj
47	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 began	aux
48	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	50 began	advmod
49	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 began	nsubj
50	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 dance	acl:relcl
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 playing	det
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 a	punct
53	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 began	xcomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Those	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get up	past · passive						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	give up	past		baskets = basket	dancing straightway			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme to straightway=Recipient
3	be	past	some			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dance	past					without trousers	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dance	past	some				without smocks or shirts	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	be	past	some			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	dance	past					with nothing; for dance	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	begin	must	baskets = basket					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	play	gerund	baskets = basket not said here					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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