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title: Somewhere, nowhere, in another kingdom, in the Empire of Thrice-ten,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Somewhere, nowhere, in another kingdom, in the Empire of Thrice-ten, lived--whether 'twas a Tsar and a Tsaritsa, or only a Prince and a Princess, I know not, but anyhow they had two sons. Who acts: I, Tsar. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, wi
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 39

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Somewhere, nowhere, in another kingdom, in the Empire of Thrice-ten, lived--whether 'twas a Tsar and a Tsaritsa, or only a Prince and a Princess, I know not, but anyhow they had two sons.

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**Who acts:** I, Tsar · **What happens:** live, not know, have · **To what, where:** twas, kingdom, two sons

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Tsar), 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:pg29672:25:39
# text = Somewhere, nowhere, in another kingdom, in the Empire of Thrice-ten, lived--whether 'twas a Tsar and a Tsaritsa, or only a Prince and a Princess, I know not, but anyhow they had two sons.
1	Somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Thrice	Thrice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Tsaritsa	Tsaritsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	anyhow	anyhow	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
44	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | twas |  | another kingdom |  | nowhere *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kingdom=Location |
| 2 | **not** **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | past | Tsar | two sons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |

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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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