--- title: And from that day everything went upside down in the _boyárs’_ house… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And from that day everything went upside down in the _boyárs’_ house, and they began looking for some doctor: the good youth dubbed himself a doctor, exorcised the devil, and received good pay. Who acts: everything, boyárs, good youth. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/9/) [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/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/) / 9 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 9 And from that day everything went upside down in the \_boyárs’\_ house, and they began looking for some doctor: the good youth dubbed himself a doctor, exorcised the devil, and received good pay. **Who acts:** everything, boyárs, good youth · **What happens:** go down, begin, look, dub, exorcise, receive · **To what, where:** youth, devil, good pay This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, boyárs, good youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:26:9 # text = And from that day everything went upside down in the _boyárs’_ house, and they began looking for some doctor: the good youth dubbed himself a doctor, exorcised the devil, and received good pay. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 6 nsubj _ _ 6 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 upside upside ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 down down ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 boyárs boyár NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’ 's PART POS _ 12 case _ SpaceAfter=No 14 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 15 punct _ _ 15 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 20 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 dubbed dub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 29 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 exorcised exorcise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 devil devil NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 39 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go down** | past | everything | | | | day | in the boyárs's house; down, upside *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in house=Attribute | | 2 | **begin** | past | boyárs *= boyár* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **look** | gerund | boyárs *= boyár* *not said here* | | | | | for some doctor | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for doctor=Theme | | 4 | **dub** | past | the good youth | youth | | | | a doctor *obj* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme doctor=Result | | 5 | **exorcise** | past | the good youth *not said here* | the devil | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent devil=Source | | 6 | **receive** | past | | good pay | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Theme | 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 Folk-Tales» by A. 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