---
title: I've got eight horses at home, the like of which I have seen nowhere… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I've got eight horses at home, the like of which I have seen nowhere else, and I'll immediately bid my equerry bring them to thee to this spring--take them."--"I _won't_ have them!" cried the Accursed One, and he held him still more tightly by the beard. " Who acts: I, equerry. A sentence of «Cossac
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/66/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Voices At the Window, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/) / 66

# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 66

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
I've got eight horses at home, the like of which I have seen nowhere else, and I'll immediately bid my equerry bring them to thee to this spring--take them."--"I \_won't\_ have them!" cried the Accursed One, and he held him still more tightly by the beard. "

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I, equerry · **What happens:** get, see, bid, bring, take, not have · **To what, where:** eight horses, home, fables, thee, the, One · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (I, equerry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg29672:4:66
# text = I've got eight horses at home, the like of which I have seen nowhere else, and I'll immediately bid my equerry bring them to thee to this spring--take them."--"I _won't_ have them!" cried the Accursed One, and he held him still more tightly by the beard. "
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	parataxis	_	_
4	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
17	else	else	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	equerry	equerry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	TO	_	29	case	_	_
29	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	45	punct	_	_
45	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
46	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
49	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	obj	_	_
51	Accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	acl	_	_
52	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
57	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	still	still	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	60	advmod	_	_
60	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
61	by	by	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	49	punct	_	_
65	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present · perfect | I | eight horses |  | home |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent horse=Theme at home=Asset |
| 2 | **see** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | nowhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bid** | future | I |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | infinitive | my equerry | fables *= fable* |  | thee | spring |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to thou=Destination |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive | I *not said here* | fables *= fable* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **have** | future | I | fables *= fable* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 7 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past |  | the |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **accurs** *in a quote* | participle |  | One |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **hold** *in a quote* | past | equerry | horse |  |  |  | tightly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/65/)
- next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/67/)
- ↑ back to [The Voices At the Window, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/)