--- title: He, with his lacqueys, met them; music sounded; and they began danci… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He, with his lacqueys, met them; music sounded; and they began dancing: and they danced until their shoes were worn thin. Who acts: lacqueys, music. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/14/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/14/) / 13 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 13 He, with his lacqueys, met them; music sounded; and they began dancing: and they danced until their shoes were worn thin. **Who acts:** lacqueys, music · **What happens:** meet, sound, begin, dance, wear · **To what, where:** lacqueys, shoes This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, 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 (lacqueys, music), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:14:13 # text = He, with his lacqueys, met them; music sounded; and they began dancing: and they danced until their shoes were worn thin. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 lacqueys lacquey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 dancing dance VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 until until SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ _ 26 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | grove's lacqueys grove *not said here* | lacqueys *= lacquey* | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | | 2 | **sound** | past | music | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **begin** | past | lacqueys *= lacquey* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **dance** | gerund | lacqueys *= lacquey* *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **dance** | past | lacqueys *= lacquey* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **wear** | past · passive | | lacqueys's shoes | | | | thin *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/14/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/14/14/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/14/)