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title: But the huntsman said, "My master, bid them bring hither into the co… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the huntsman said, "My master, bid them bring hither into the courtyard an old mare fit for naught but the knacker." Who acts: huntsman, master. 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 43

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But the huntsman said, "My master, bid them bring hither into the courtyard an old mare fit for naught but the knacker."

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**Who acts:** huntsman, master · **What happens:** say, bid, bring · **To what, where:** huntsmen, courtyard · **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 (huntsman, master), 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:pg29672:4:43
# text = But the huntsman said, "My master, bid them bring hither into the courtyard an old mare fit for naught but the knacker."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	20	nmod	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	knacker	knacker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the huntsman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bid** *in a quote* | infinitive | My master | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | My master *not said here* |  |  | the courtyard |  | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into courtyard=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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