Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 98

And immediately all the cattle fell a-dancing, and everything in the hedge, and the parson behind the hedge danced too.

Who acts: cattle, parson · What happens: fall, dance · 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 (cattle, parson), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 fell	cc
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	3 all	advmod
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 cattle	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cattle	det
5	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dancing	det
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 a	punct
9	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 everything	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 everything	cc
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 fell	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hedge	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hedge	det
15	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 everything	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 danced	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 danced	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 parson	det
19	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 danced	nsubj
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 hedge	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hedge	det
22	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 parson	nmod
23	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj
24	too	too	ADV	_	23 danced	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	all cattle	a dancing				everything obl	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient dancing=Result
2	dance	past	the parson behind the hedge						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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