Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 99
Nevertheless, I'll go to a rocky place I know of, and there perchance we shall be able to catch it."
Who acts: I, perchance · What happens: go, know, be, catch · To what, where: rocky place, perchance
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, perchance), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 8 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 place | acl:relcl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 know | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 able | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 able | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 perchance | expl |
| 16 | perchance | perchance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 able | nsubj |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 able | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 able | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | cop |
| 20 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 go | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 catch | mark |
| 22 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 catch | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | a rocky place | nevertheless property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | know | present | I | a rocky place not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | perchance | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | catch | to-infinitive | perchance not said here | perchance | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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