Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 1

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 · What happens: dwell, be, fear · To what, where: land, God

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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.

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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