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title: Perchance other people may be able to knock more sense into him than… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Perchance other people may be able to knock more sense into him than we can at home; but send him whither we will, he always comes running home again!"--"Hire him out to me. Who acts: Perchance other people, last. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, with i
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 35

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Perchance other people may be able to knock more sense into him than we can at home; but send him whither we will, he always comes running home again!"--"Hire him out to me.

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**Who acts:** Perchance other people, last · **What happens:** be, knock, send, come, run, hire out · **To what, where:** more sense, last, me

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Perchance other people, last), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29672:2:35
# text = Perchance other people may be able to knock more sense into him than we can at home; but send him whither we will, he always comes running home again!"--"Hire him out to me.
1	Perchance	Perchance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
29	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	xcomp	_	_
30	home	home	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Hire	hire	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | Perchance other people |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **knock** | to-infinitive | Perchance other people *not said here* | more sense |  |  |  | into last | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sense=Theme into he=Destination |
| 3 | **send** | infinitive |  | last |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | present | last |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **run** | gerund | last *not said here* |  |  |  | again | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hire out** | infinitive |  | last | me |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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.

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**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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