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title: Now this nobleman had many servants, and they curried his horses for… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now this nobleman had many servants, and they curried his horses for him, and made them smart and glossy against the day he should go a-hunting. Who acts: nobleman, servants. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 153

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Now this nobleman had many servants, and they curried his horses for him, and made them smart and glossy against the day he should go a-hunting.

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**Who acts:** nobleman, servants · **What happens:** have, curry, make, go · **To what, where:** many servants, horses, servants, hunting

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobleman, servants), 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:pg29672:8:153
# text = Now this nobleman had many servants, and they curried his horses for him, and made them smart and glossy against the day he should go a-hunting.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	curried	curry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	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	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	glossy	glossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	against	against	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | this nobleman | many servants |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient |
| 2 | **curry** | past | servants *= servant* | nobleman's horses |  |  |  | for nobleman | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past | this nobleman *not said here* | servants *= servant* |  |  |  | smart *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 4 | **go** | should | nobleman | a hunting |  |  | day |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=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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