Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 40
I have still, perchance, a little time to live in Thy fair world!"
Who acts: I · What happens: have, live · To what, where: perchance, fair world
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. 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 | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 have | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 perchance | punct |
| 5 | perchance | perchance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 time | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perchance | appos |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 live | mark |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 time | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 13 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 world | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 world | amod |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 live | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 time | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 perchance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | perchance | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perchance=Patient | |||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | I not said here | Thy fair world | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
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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