Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 89

They began grazing till he took out his fife again, when they all fell a-dancing like mad.

Who acts: cattle, Ivan · What happens: begin, graze, take out, 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 (cattle, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grazing	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 began	xcomp
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 took	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 took	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fife	nmod:poss
9	fife	fife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	6 took	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 fell	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fell	nsubj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 they	det
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dancing	det
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 a	punct
18	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	obj
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 mad	case
20	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fell	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	cattle				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	graze	gerund	cattle not said here				vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take out	past	Ivan	Ivan's fife	again		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fife=Theme
4	fall	past	cattle	a dancing		like mad	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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