--- title: The servant went home to the village where he lived, made him a catt… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The servant went home to the village where he lived, made him a cattle-pen stronger than strong, went inside it and broke the egg, and immediately that cattle-pen was as full of cattle as it could hold. Who acts: servant, cattle pen, pen. 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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 (servant, cattle pen, pen), 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:pg29672:17:16 # text = The servant went home to the village where he lived, made him a cattle-pen stronger than strong, went inside it and broke the egg, and immediately that cattle-pen was as full of cattle as it could hold. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 cattle cattle NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 pen pen NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 18 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 xcomp _ _ 19 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 23 inside inside ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 31 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 32 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 33 cattle cattle NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 pen pen NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 as as ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 41 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the servant | | | the village | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **live** | past | servant | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **make** | past | the servant *not said here* | a cattle pen | servant | | | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary pen=Product | | 4 | **go** | past | | | | pen | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inside it=Location | | 5 | **break** | past | | the egg | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Patient | | 6 | **is** | past | that cattle pen | | | | | of cattle; full, immediately *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **hold** | could | pen | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/17/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/17/17/) - ↑ back to [The Iron Wolf](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/17/)