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

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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.

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**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

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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.

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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:pg22373:43:73
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	tutor	tutor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	chop	chop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	chunks	chunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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