--- title: So they looked more closely, and they perceived that when Tremsin cl… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So they looked more closely, and they perceived that when Tremsin cleaned his horse he stroked it with the feather of the Bird Zhar, and the coat of the good steed straightway shone like burnished silver. Who acts: servants, Tremsin, nobleman. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, Tremsin, nobleman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:8:155 # text = So they looked more closely, and they perceived that when Tremsin cleaned his horse he stroked it with the feather of the Bird Zhar, and the coat of the good steed straightway shone like burnished silver. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 5 closely closely ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 perceived perceive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 Tremsin Tremsin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 cleaned clean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stroked stroke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Bird Bird PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Zhar Zhar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 steed steed NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 straightway straightway NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 35 shone shine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 burnished burnish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 38 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | servants *= servant* | | | | | closely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **perceive** | past | servants *= servant* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **clean** | past | Tremsin | nobleman's horse | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | | 4 | **stroke** | past | nobleman | horse | | | | with the feather of the Bird Zhar | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with feather=Instrument | | 5 | **shine** | participle | | the good steed straightway *not said here* | | | | like burnished silver | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **burnish** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/154/) - next →: [sentence 156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/156/) - ↑ back to [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/)