Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 124
I'll watch and watch till I watch the thing out."
Who acts: I · What happens: watch, watch out · To what, where: thing
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 watch | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 watch | aux |
| 3 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 watch | cc |
| 5 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 watch | conj |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 watch | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 watch | nsubj |
| 8 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 watch | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watch | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 watch | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watch | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | future | I | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | watch | infinitive | I not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | watch out | present | I | the thing | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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