Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 165

Then his fellow-servants were more envious than ever, and they said among themselves, "How shall we devise for him a task to do that cannot be done, and so rid the world of him altogether?"

Who acts: fellow servants, servants, we · What happens: be, say, devise, do, not do, rid · To what, where: task, that, 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 (fellow servants, servants, 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	8 envious	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 servants	nmod:poss
3	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 servants	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 fellow	punct
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 envious	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 envious	cop
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 envious	advmod
8	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 ever	case
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 envious	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 envious	conj
15	among	among	ADP	_	16 themselves	case
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 devise	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 devise	punct
19	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 devise	advmod
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 devise	aux
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 devise	nsubj
22	devise	devise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 devise	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 task	det
26	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 devise	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 do	mark
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 devise	advcl
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 done	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 done	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 done	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 done	aux:pass
33	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 do	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 rid	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 rid	cc
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 rid	advmod
37	rid	rid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 envious	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 world	det
39	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 rid	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 world	nmod
42	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	37 rid	advmod
43	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 envious	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 envious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	instant's fellow servants		then	envious property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	servants = servant			among servants = servant	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	devise in a quote	shall	we	a task		for instant	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Patient
4	do in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here				tree rules
5	not do in a quote	can · passive		that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	rid in a quote	infinitive	instant's fellow servants not said here	the world of instant		altogether property	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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