Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 35

Perchance other people may be able to knock more sense into him than we can at home; but send him whither we will, he always comes running home again!"--"Hire him out to me.

Who acts: Perchance other people, last · What happens: be, knock, send, come, run, hire out · To what, where: more sense, last, me

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Perchance other people, last), 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	Perchance	Perchance	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 people	compound
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 able	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 able	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	cop
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 knock	mark
8	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 sense	amod
10	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knock	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knock	obl
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 can	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 can	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 knock	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 home	case
17	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 can	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 send	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 send	cc
20	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 able	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 send	obj
22	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	24 will	advmod
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 will	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 send	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 comes	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 comes	nsubj
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 comes	advmod
28	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 send	parataxis
29	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 comes	xcomp
30	home	home	ADV	_	29 running	advmod
31	again	again	ADV	_	29 running	advmod
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 running	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 comes	punct
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 Hire	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 Hire	punct
36	Hire	hire	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 send	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 Hire	obj
38	out	out	ADP	_	36 Hire	compound:prt
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 me	case
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 Hire	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	Perchance other people				able property	tree rules
2	knock	to-infinitive	Perchance other people not said here	more sense			into last	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sense=Theme into he=Destination
3	send	infinitive		last				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	come	present	last				always property	tree rules
5	run	gerund	last not said here			again	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hire out	infinitive		last	me			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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