Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 6
For we two must perish in any case, but thou perhaps mayst get off scot-free."
Who acts: we, thou · What happens: perish, get off · To what, where: case
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, thou), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 perish | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 perish | nsubj |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 perish | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 perish | aux |
| 5 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 case | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 case | det |
| 8 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perish | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 get | nsubj |
| 12 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 13 | mayst | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 perish | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 get | compound:prt |
| 16 | scot | scot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 free | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 scot | punct |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 get | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 perish | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 perish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perish | must | we | any case | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get off | may | thou | free, perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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