Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 154

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 · What happens: begin, curry, not make, shine, make · To what, where: horse, horses, own horse

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.

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 began	cc
2	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 curry	mark
5	curry	curry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horse	nmod:poss
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 curry	obj
8	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	5 curry	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 make	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 servants	det
12	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 nobleman	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 nobleman	det
15	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 servants	nmod
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 make	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 make	advmod
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horses	det
20	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 master	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 master	nmod:poss
23	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 horses	nmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 shining	advmod
25	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 make	advcl
26	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 shining	xcomp
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 made	mark
28	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 made	nsubj
29	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 shining	advcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 horse	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 horse	amod
32	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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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