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title: On such and such a spot of my kingdom there stands a lofty iron pill… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: On such and such a spot of my kingdom there stands a lofty iron pillar. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 67

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On such and such a spot of my kingdom there stands a lofty iron pillar.

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**What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** lofty iron pillar, such spot

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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: 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:pg22373:43:67
# text = On such and such a spot of my kingdom there stands a lofty iron pillar.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	6	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present |  | a lofty iron pillar |  | such such spot of my kingdom; there |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pillar=Theme on spot=Destination |

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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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