Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 156
Then those servants were filled with envy, and said among themselves, "How can we remove this fellow from the world?
Who acts: we · What happens: fill, say, remove · To what, where: servants, fellow, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 filled | advmod |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 servants | det |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | aux:pass |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 envy | case |
| 7 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | parataxis |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 themselves | case |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remove | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 remove | punct |
| 15 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 remove | advmod |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 remove | aux |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 remove | nsubj |
| 18 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 fellow | det |
| 20 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remove | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remove | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | that servants | then | with envy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with envy=Instrument | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | among servants = servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | remove in a quote | can | we | this fellow | the world | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme from world=Source |
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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