Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 84

So he began to play, and immediately all the cattle fell a-dancing; and not only the cattle, but all the foxes, and the hares, and the wolves, and everything in the hedges and ditches fell a-dancing too.

Who acts: Ivan, cattle, everything · What happens: begin, play, fall · To what, where: 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, cattle, everything), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 play	mark
5	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fell	cc
8	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	9 all	advmod
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 cattle	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cattle	det
11	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
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	_	21 cattle	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cattle	cc
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 cattle	advmod
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 cattle	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cattle	det
21	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 foxes	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 foxes	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 foxes	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 foxes	det
26	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cattle	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hares	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hares	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hares	det
30	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cattle	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wolves	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wolves	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wolves	det
34	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cattle	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 fell	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 fell	cc
37	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	43 fell	nsubj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 hedges	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 hedges	det
40	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 everything	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 ditches	cc
42	ditches	ditch	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 hedges	conj
43	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 dancing	det
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 a	punct
46	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fell	obj
47	too	too	ADV	_	43 fell	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	Ivan		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	play	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	all cattle	a dancing	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient dancing=Result
4	fall	past	everything	a dancing	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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