--- title: Then he sent for his heyducks and commanded them, saying, "Go this i… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then he sent for his heyducks and commanded them, saying, "Go this instant to such and such a kingdom, and there ye will find the youth who cured my daughter; bring him to me." Who acts: youth, ye. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/132/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/) / 132 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 132 Then he sent for his heyducks and commanded them, saying, "Go this instant to such and such a kingdom, and there ye will find the youth who cured my daughter; bring him to me." **Who acts:** youth, ye · **What happens:** send, command, say, go, find, cure · **To what, where:** heyducks, instant, youth, daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, ye), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:8:132 # text = Then he sent for his heyducks and commanded them, saying, "Go this instant to such and such a kingdom, and there ye will find the youth who cured my daughter; bring him to me." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 heyducks heyduck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 15 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 instant instant NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 22 det:predet _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 26 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 cured cure VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 36 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | youth | | | | then | for youth's heyducks | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **command** | past | youth *not said here* | heyducks *= heyduck* | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | youth *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | this instant | | | | to such | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location instant=Theme | | 5 | **find** *in a quote* | future | ye | the youth | | there | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Topic | | 6 | **cure** *in a quote* | past | the youth | my daughter | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer daughter=Source | | 7 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | youth *not said here* | youth | youth | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Destination | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/131/) - next →: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/133/) - ↑ back to [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/)