Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 90

Catch us, indeed, going within a hen's race of that unlucky cabin!"

Who acts: you, unlucky cabin · What happens: catch, go, race · To what, where: us

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, unlucky cabin), 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	Catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Catch	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 indeed	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	1 Catch	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Catch	advcl
7	within	within	ADP	_	11 race	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hen	det
9	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 race	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 hen	case
11	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 cabin	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 cabin	det
14	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cabin	amod
15	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 race	nmod
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Catch	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Catch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	imperative	you not said here	us	indeed property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	go	gerund	you not said here		within a hen's race of that unlucky cabin	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	race		that unlucky cabin			nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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