--- title: I am to fill three vats with the milk from her mare, and the milk mu… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:8:211 # text = 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. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 vats vat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 mare mare NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux _ _ 19 boiling boil VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 20 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 amod _ _ 24 vat vat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 lukewarm lukewarm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 icy icy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 38 amod _ _ 38 vat vat NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 -- -- PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 45 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ho ho NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 48 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 57 nsubj _ _ 54 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 cop _ _ 55 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 57 advmod _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 59 but but CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 60 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 trifle trifle NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 210](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/210/) - next →: [sentence 212](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/212/) - ↑ back to [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/)