Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 10
The servant stood there in amazement, and he thought to himself, "However in God's world shall I be able to drive all these cattle back again?"
Who acts: servant · What happens: stand, think, be, drive · To what, where: amazement, servant, cattle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 amazement | case |
| 6 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 himself | case |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 thought | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 able | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 able | punct |
| 15 | However | however | ADV | _ | 23 able | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 world | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 God | case |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 However | obl |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 able | aux |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 able | nsubj |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | cop |
| 23 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 drive | mark |
| 25 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | xcomp |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 cattle | det:predet |
| 27 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 cattle | det |
| 28 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 drive | obj |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 drive | advmod |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 drive | advmod |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the servant | amazement; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in amazement=Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | servant | servant | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | shall | servant | able, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drive in a quote | to-infinitive | servant not said here | all cattle | again | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=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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