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title: And the Tsar of this tsardom had an only daughter, so lovely that th… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 39

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And the Tsar of this tsardom had an only daughter, so lovely that the like of her is neither to be imagined nor divined in God's fair world, neither may it be told in tales.

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**Who acts:** Tsar · **What happens:** have, be, divine, tell · **To what, where:** only daughter, fair world, world, tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg29672:8:39
# text = And the Tsar of this tsardom had an only daughter, so lovely that the like of her is neither to be imagined nor divined in God's fair world, neither may it be told in tales.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	tsardom	tsardom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc	_	_
25	divined	divine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	36	cc:preconj	_	_
33	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Tsar of this tsardom | a only daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present · passive | the Tsar of this tsardom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | imagine, neither *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **divine** | participle | the Tsar of this tsardom *not said here* |  |  | God's fair world |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | may · passive |  | world |  | tales |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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