--- title: When he got to his court, he made a great to-do about his beautiful… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When he got to his court, he made a great to-do about his beautiful horse, and cried to his daughter, "Come and see, dear little heart, what a fine horse I have bought." Who acts: Tsar. 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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 (Tsar), 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:pg29672:10:103 # text = When he got to his court, he made a great to-do about his beautiful horse, and cried to his daughter, "Come and see, dear little heart, what a fine horse I have bought." 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 38 det:predet _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 bought buy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | Tsar | | | | | to Tsar's court *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to court=Result | | 2 | **make** | past | Tsar | | | | | great *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **do** | infinitive | Tsar *not said here* | | | | | about Tsar's beautiful horse | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Tsar *not said here* | | Tsar's daughter | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient | | 5 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tsar *not said here* | dear little heart and what fine horse | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tsar *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **buy** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Tsar | what fine horse *not said here* | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | 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 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/10/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/10/104/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Unlucky Daniel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/10/)