Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 45

And the people came in crowds--but none of them could read the prayers for the dead over her, it was impossible.

Who acts: people, none · What happens: come, read, be · To what, where: crowds, prayers

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 (people, none), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 crowds	case
6	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 read	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 read	cc
9	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	13 read	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 none	nmod
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 read	aux
13	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prayers	det
15	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 read	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 dead	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dead	det
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 read	obl
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 read	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 impossible	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 impossible	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 impossible	cop
24	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the people		crowds		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crowd=Location
2	read	could	none	the prayers		for the dead; over Spirit	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
3	is	past	the people not said here			impossible property	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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