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title: So they all went out and saw two serpents bringing out the horse, an… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they all went out and saw two serpents bringing out the horse, and it was as much as the pair of them could do to hold its head, so fierce and strong it was. Who acts: guests, two serpents, horse, pair. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, wit
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 81

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So they all went out and saw two serpents bringing out the horse, and it was as much as the pair of them could do to hold its head, so fierce and strong it was.

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**Who acts:** guests, two serpents, horse, pair · **What happens:** go out, see, bring out, be, do, hold · **To what, where:** two serpents, horse, head

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests, two serpents, horse, pair), 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:pg29672:26:81
# text = So they all went out and saw two serpents bringing out the horse, and it was as much as the pair of them could do to hold its head, so fierce and strong it was.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | guests *= guest* |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | guests *= guest* *not said here* | two serpents |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer serpent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bring out** | gerund | two serpents *not said here* | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | horse |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | could | the pair of guests |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hold** | to-infinitive | the pair of guests *not said here* | horse's head |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 7 | **be** | past | horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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.

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