Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 153

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

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.

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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 nobleman	det
3	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 servants	amod
6	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 curried	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 curried	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 curried	nsubj
10	curried	curry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 horses	nmod:poss
12	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 curried	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 curried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	obj
19	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 made	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 glossy	cc
21	glossy	glossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 smart	conj
22	against	against	ADP	_	24 day	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hunting	det
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 a	punct
30	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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.

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