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title: When they got home the nobleman commanded them to bring the huntsman… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they got home the nobleman commanded them to bring the huntsman before him. " Who acts: huntsmen, nobleman. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 40

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When they got home the nobleman commanded them to bring the huntsman before him. "

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**Who acts:** huntsmen, nobleman · **What happens:** get, command, bring · **To what, where:** huntsmen, huntsman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsmen, nobleman), 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:pg29672:4:40
# text = When they got home the nobleman commanded them to bring the huntsman before him. "
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **command** | past | the nobleman | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the nobleman *not said here* | the huntsman |  |  | before nobleman |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent huntsman=Theme before he=Destination |

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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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