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title: Then they ordered him to be put in irons and taken thither. — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they ordered him to be put in irons and taken thither. Who acts: sentries. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 83

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Then they ordered him to be put in irons and taken thither.

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**Who acts:** sentries · **What happens:** order, put, take · **To what, where:** passport, irons

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sentries), 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:pg29672:19:83
# text = Then they ordered him to be put in irons and taken thither.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	irons	iron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
12	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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 | sentries *= sentry* |  | passport |  | then |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | to-infinitive · passive | sentries *= sentry* *not said here* |  |  | irons |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in iron=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | participle | sentries *= sentry* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «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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