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title: And Tremsin began to curry his horse likewise, and the servants of t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Tremsin began to curry his horse likewise, and the servants of the nobleman could not make the horses of their master so shining bright as Tremsin made his own horse. Who acts: Tremsin, servants. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 154

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And Tremsin began to curry his horse likewise, and the servants of the nobleman could not make the horses of their master so shining bright as Tremsin made his own horse.

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**Who acts:** Tremsin, servants · **What happens:** begin, curry, not make, shine, make · **To what, where:** horse, horses, own horse

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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 (Tremsin, 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:pg29672:8:154
# text = And Tremsin began to curry his horse likewise, and the servants of the nobleman could not make the horses of their master so shining bright as Tremsin made his own horse.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	curry	curry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
26	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Tremsin |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **curry** | to-infinitive | Tremsin *not said here* | nobleman's horse |  |  |  | likewise *property* | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **make** | could | the servants of the nobleman | the horses of servants's master |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset horse=Product |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund | the servants of the nobleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past | Tremsin | nobleman's own horse |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Product |

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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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