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title: Well, his brothers got ready their horses, combed out their mustache… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, his brothers got ready their horses, combed out their mustaches, and prepared to go next morning to test their mettle before the eyes of Helena the Fair. Who acts: brothers, ready horses. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., pa
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 47

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Well, his brothers got ready their horses, combed out their mustaches, and prepared to go next morning to test their mettle before the eyes of Helena the Fair.

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**Who acts:** brothers, ready horses · **What happens:** get, comb out, go, test · **To what, where:** ready horses, mustaches, mettle

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, ready horses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg22373:45:47
# text = Well, his brothers got ready their horses, combed out their mustaches, and prepared to go next morning to test their mettle before the eyes of Helena the Fair.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	combed	comb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mustaches	mustache	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mettle	mettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Vanyusha's brothers | likes's ready horses |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
| 2 | **comb out** | participle | likes's ready horses *not said here* | likes's mustaches |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mustache=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | likes's ready horses *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **test** | to-infinitive | likes's ready horses *not said here* | likes's mettle |  |  | before the eyes of Helena |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mettle=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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