Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 77

The Boyar ordered his people to find out the peasant--(that is to say) to look for such and such a physician.

Who acts: Boyar, that · What happens: order, find out, be, look · To what, where: people, peasant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boyar, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Boyar	det
2	Boyar	Boyar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 people	nmod:poss
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ordered	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ordered	xcomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 find	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 peasant	det
10	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 say	nsubj:outer
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 say	cop
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 find	conj
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 look	mark
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 say	ccomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	25 physician	case
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 physician	amod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 physician	cc
23	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	25 physician	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 physician	det
25	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 look	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	order	past	the Boyar		Boyar's people		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
2	find out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Boyar not said here	the peasant			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peasant=Topic
3	be speech: assert	present	that			say property	tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive				for such such physician	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for physician=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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