Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 47

Well, his brothers got ready their horses, combed out their mustaches, and prepared to go next morning to test their mettle before the eyes of Helena the Fair.

Who acts: brothers, ready horses · What happens: get, comb out, go, test · To what, where: ready horses, mustaches, mettle

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, ready horses), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brothers	nmod:poss
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horses	amod
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horses	nmod:poss
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 combed	punct
10	combed	comb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 horses	acl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 combed	compound:prt
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mustaches	nmod:poss
13	mustaches	mustache	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 combed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 prepared	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 prepared	cc
16	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 prepared	xcomp
19	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 morning	amod
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl:unmarked
21	to	to	PART	_	22 test	mark
22	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	advcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mettle	nmod:poss
24	mettle	mettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 test	obj
25	before	before	ADP	_	27 eyes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 eyes	det
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 test	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Helena	case
29	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 eyes	nmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Fair	det
31	Fair	Fair	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Helena	appos
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	get	past	Vanyusha's brothers	likes's ready horses		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus
2	comb out	participle	likes's ready horses not said here	likes's mustaches		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mustache=Patient
3	go	to-infinitive	likes's ready horses not said here		morning	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	test	to-infinitive	likes's ready horses not said here	likes's mettle	before the eyes of Helena	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mettle=Theme

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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