Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 211

I am to fill three vats with the milk from her mare, and the milk must be boiling hot in the first vat, and lukewarm in the second, and icy cold in the third vat."--"Oh-ho!" cried the horse, "that is not a task, but a trifle.

Who acts: I, milk, ho, that · What happens: fill, boil, cry, not be · To what, where: three vats, horse, task · 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 (I, milk, ho, that), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fill	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fill	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fill	mark
4	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 vats	nummod
6	vats	vat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fill	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 milk	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 milk	det
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fill	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 mare	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mare	nmod:poss
12	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fill	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 boiling	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 boiling	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 milk	det
16	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 boiling	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 boiling	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 boiling	aux
19	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fill	advcl
20	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boiling	xcomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 vat	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 vat	det
23	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 vat	amod
24	vat	vat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hot	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lukewarm	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lukewarm	cc
27	lukewarm	lukewarm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fill	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 second	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 second	det
30	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 lukewarm	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cold	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 cold	cc
33	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 cold	amod
34	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lukewarm	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 vat	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 vat	det
37	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	38 vat	amod
38	vat	vat	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cold	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fill	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fill	punct
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	45 ho	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 ho	punct
43	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	45 ho	discourse
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 Oh	punct
45	ho	ho	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 cried	nsubj
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	45 ho	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 ho	punct
48	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fill	parataxis
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 horse	det
50	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 cried	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fill	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fill	punct
53	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 task	nsubj
54	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 task	cop
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 task	advmod
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 task	det
57	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fill	parataxis
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 trifle	punct
59	but	but	CCONJ	_	61 trifle	cc
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 trifle	det
61	trifle	trifle	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 task	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fill	present	I	three vats	with the milk; from NASTASIA's mare	tree rules
2	boil	must · progressive	the milk		hot property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	cry speech: express in a quote	past	ho	the horse		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic
4	not is a	present	that	a task but a trifle		tree rules

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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