Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 39

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 · What happens: live, not know, have · To what, where: twas, kingdom, two sons

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.

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	17 lived	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nowhere	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 kingdom	case
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 kingdom	det
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lived	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Empire	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 Empire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Empire	det
11	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kingdom	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Thrice	case
13	Thrice	Thrice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Empire	nmod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 ten	punct
15	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 Empire	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kingdom	punct
17	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 twas	punct
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	21 twas	mark
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 twas	punct
21	twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lived	obl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Tsar	det
23	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 twas	appos
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Tsaritsa	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Tsaritsa	det
26	Tsaritsa	Tsaritsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Tsar	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Prince	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 Prince	cc
29	only	only	ADV	_	31 Prince	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 Prince	det
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Tsar	appos
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Princess	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 Princess	det
34	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Tsar	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 know	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 know	nsubj
37	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 Tsar	parataxis
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 know	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 had	cc
41	anyhow	anyhow	SCONJ	_	43 had	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 had	nsubj
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 know	conj
44	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 sons	nummod
45	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 had	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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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