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title: All the servants stood in the courtyard and saw them mount their ste… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All the servants stood in the courtyard and saw them mount their steeds, and here by chance came the third brother; for the squire had three sons, but nobody counted him with his brothers, for he was not so learned as they were, and he was generally called ‘Blockhead-Hans.’ Who acts: servants, third
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 92

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All the servants stood in the courtyard and saw them mount their steeds, and here by chance came the third brother; for the squire had three sons, but nobody counted him with his brothers, for he was not so learned as they were, and he was generally called ‘Blockhead-Hans.’

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**Who acts:** servants, third brother, nobody, brothers · **What happens:** stand, see, mount, come, have, count · **To what, where:** courtyard, servants, steeds, three sons, horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, third brother, nobody, brothers), 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:pg640:50:92
# text = All the servants stood in the courtyard and saw them mount their steeds, and here by chance came the third brother; for the squire had three sons, but nobody counted him with his brothers, for he was not so learned as they were, and he was generally called ‘Blockhead-Hans.’
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	mount	mount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	nsubj	_	_
33	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
52	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
54	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	Blockhead	Blockhead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	55	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | all servants |  |  | the courtyard |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in courtyard=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | all servants *not said here* | servants *= servant* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mount** | infinitive | servants *= servant* *not said here* | servants's steeds |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | past | the third brother |  |  | here |  | by chance | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chance=Location |
| 5 | **have** | past |  | three sons |  |  |  | for the squire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 6 | **count** | past | nobody | horse |  |  |  | with horse's brothers | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **learn** | past · passive |  | horse |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 8 | **be** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **call** | past · passive |  | horse |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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