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description: [455] He served Nicholas several years, and went on serving until such time as there remained to him nothing either for board or lodging. Who acts: Lord. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 138

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\[455\] He served Nicholas several years, and went on serving until such time as there remained to him nothing either for board or lodging.

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**Who acts:** Lord · **What happens:** serve, go, remain · **To what, where:** 455, nothing, Lord

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord), 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:pg22373:58:138
# text = [455] He served Nicholas several years, and went on serving until such time as there remained to him nothing either for board or lodging.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	455	455	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	until	until	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	obj	_	_
23	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc:preconj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	lodging	lodging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past | Lord | 455 |  |  | year |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nicholas=Attribute |
| 2 | **go** | past | Lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **serve** | gerund | Lord *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **remain** | participle | Lord *not said here* | nothing | Lord | there |  | for board or lodging | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nothing=Attribute |

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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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