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title: So they let him go, and never did any man feel so wretched on God's… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they let him go, and never did any man feel so wretched on God's earth as did that wretched Tsar. Who acts: things, man. 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 95

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So they let him go, and never did any man feel so wretched on God's earth as did that wretched Tsar.

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**Who acts:** things, man · **What happens:** let, go, not feel, do · **To what, where:** man, earth, wretched Tsar

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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 (things, man), 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:pg29672:19:95
# text = So they let him go, and never did any man feel so wretched on God's earth as did that wretched Tsar.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
22	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | things *= thing* | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **feel** | past · do-support | any man |  |  | God's earth |  | wretched *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | past | any man *not said here* | wretched Tsar |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Eventuality |

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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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