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title: They went on and on, through ten tsardoms they went, till they came… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They went on and on, through ten tsardoms they went, till they came to another empire in the land of Thrice Ten where lay the feather. Who acts: TREMSIN. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 146

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They went on and on, through ten tsardoms they went, till they came to another empire in the land of Thrice Ten where lay the feather.

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**Who acts:** TREMSIN · **What happens:** go, come, lay · **To what, where:** ten tsardoms, empire, feather

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TREMSIN), 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:pg29672:8:146
# text = They went on and on, through ten tsardoms they went, till they came to another empire in the land of Thrice Ten where lay the feather.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	tsardoms	tsardom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Thrice	Thrice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
26	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | TREMSIN |  |  | ten tsardoms |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through tsardom=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | TREMSIN | ten tsardoms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tsardom=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | TREMSIN |  |  | another empire in the land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to empire=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **lay** | infinitive | TREMSIN *not said here* | the feather |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Result |

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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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