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title: Perchance he will lend me a silver rouble; that, at any rate, will b… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Perchance he will lend me a silver rouble; that, at any rate, will be enough to buy bread with." Who acts: Perchance. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 6

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Perchance he will lend me a silver rouble; that, at any rate, will be enough to buy bread with."

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**Who acts:** Perchance · **What happens:** lend, be, buy · **To what, where:** silver rouble, me, bread

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Perchance), 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:pg29672:8:6
# text = Perchance he will lend me a silver rouble; that, at any rate, will be enough to buy bread with."
1	Perchance	perchance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rouble	rouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
21	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | future | Perchance | a silver rouble | me |  |  | that *obl* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient rouble=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | future | Perchance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **buy** | to-infinitive | Perchance *not said here* | bread |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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