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title: Now it was his custom to rise at dawn, mount his horse, and go a-hun… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it was his custom to rise at dawn, mount his horse, and go a-hunting, for hunting he dearly loved. Who acts: bridge, custom, serpent. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2, 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 2, sentence 62

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Now it was his custom to rise at dawn, mount his horse, and go a-hunting, for hunting he dearly loved.

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**Who acts:** bridge, custom, serpent · **What happens:** be, rise, mount, go, love · **To what, where:** custom, horse, hunting

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (bridge, custom, serpent), 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:pg29672:5:62
# text = Now it was his custom to rise at dawn, mount his horse, and go a-hunting, for hunting he dearly loved.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mount	mount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	dearly	dearly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | bridge | serpent's custom |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | to-infinitive | serpent's custom |  |  |  | dawn |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mount** | infinitive | serpent's custom *not said here* | serpent's horse |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | serpent's custom *not said here* | a hunting |  |  |  | for hunting | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme |
| 5 | **love** | past | serpent | hunting *not said here* |  |  |  | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunting=Stimulus |

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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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