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title: Somewhere, nowhere, in a certain kingdom, in a certain empire, time… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Somewhere, nowhere, in a certain kingdom, in a certain empire, time out of mind, and in no land of ours, dwelt a Tsar who was so proud, so very proud, that he feared neither God nor man. Who acts: Tsar, he. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel, with its dependen
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 1

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Somewhere, nowhere, in a certain kingdom, in a certain empire, time out of mind, and in no land of ours, dwelt a Tsar who was so proud, so very proud, that he feared neither God nor man.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, he · **What happens:** dwell, be, fear · **To what, where:** land, God

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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 (Tsar, he), 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:pg29672:19:1
# text = Somewhere, nowhere, in a certain kingdom, in a certain empire, time out of mind, and in no land of ours, dwelt a Tsar who was so proud, so very proud, that he feared neither God nor man.
1	Somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
27	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	very	very	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
42	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	43	cc:preconj	_	_
43	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	45	cc	_	_
45	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past |  |  |  | no land of ours |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | a Tsar |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | a Tsar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fear** | past | he | God nor man |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |

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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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