---
title: The servant stood there in amazement, and he thought to himself, "Ho… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/17/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Iron Wolf](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/17/) / 10

# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
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?"

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** servant · **What happens:** stand, think, be, drive · **To what, where:** amazement, servant, cattle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29672:17:10
# text = 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?"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	However	however	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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 |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/17/9/)
- next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/17/11/)
- ↑ back to [The Iron Wolf](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/17/)