Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 49

So he took the lead in the dance, and, as a song is always sung by the leader on such occasions, to which the rest keep time with hands and feet, he thus began to sing:

Who acts: assurance, leader, rest · What happens: take, sing, keep, begin · To what, where: lead, dance, such occasions

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (assurance, leader, rest), 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 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lead	det
5	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 dance	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dance	det
8	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sung	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sung	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 and	punct
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 song	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 song	det
14	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sung	obl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sung	aux:pass
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 sung	advmod
17	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 took	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 leader	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 leader	det
20	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sung	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 occasions	case
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 occasions	amod
23	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sung	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 keep	punct
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 keep	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rest	det
28	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 keep	nsubj
29	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sung	conj
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 keep	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 hands	case
32	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 keep	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 feet	cc
34	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hands	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 began	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 began	nsubj
37	thus	thus	ADV	_	38 began	advmod
38	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 sing	mark
40	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 began	xcomp
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	assurance	the lead	the dance			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lead=Value in dance=Location
2	sing speech: express	present · passive	the leader		such occasions		as a song; always property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on occasion=Location
3	keep	present	the rest			time	with hands and feet	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	assurance				thus property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	assurance not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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