Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 73

The Prince straightway called for his tutor, and ordered him to drag the iron pillar into the kitchen, and to chop it into small chunks by way of fuel for the cook.

Who acts: Prince straightway · What happens: call, order, drag, chop · To what, where: Prince straightway, Katoma, iron pillar, kitchen, pillar, small chunks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince straightway), 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	3 straightway	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 straightway	compound
3	straightway	straightway	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ordered	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 straightway	acl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 tutor	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tutor	nmod:poss
7	tutor	tutor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ordered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ordered	cc
10	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ordered	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 drag	mark
13	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ordered	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pillar	det
15	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pillar	amod
16	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drag	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 kitchen	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 kitchen	det
19	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drag	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 chop	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 chop	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 chop	mark
23	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 drag	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 chop	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 chunks	case
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 chunks	amod
27	chunks	chunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 chop	obl
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 way	case
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 chop	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 fuel	case
31	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 way	nmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 cook	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cook	det
34	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fuel	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle		the Prince straightway not said here			for straightway's tutor	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for tutor=Recipient
2	order	past	the Prince straightway		Katoma			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	drag not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Prince straightway not said here	the iron pillar		the kitchen		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillar=Theme
4	chop	to-infinitive	the Prince straightway not said here	pillar			into small chunks result; by way of fuel for the cook	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into chunk=Result

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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