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

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

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:15:77
# text = The Boyar ordered his people to find out the peasant--(that is to say) to look for such and such a physician.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Boyar	Boyar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj:outer	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	25	det:predet	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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