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title: Catch us, indeed, going within a hen's race of that unlucky cabin!" — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Catch us, indeed, going within a hen's race of that unlucky cabin!" Who acts: you, unlucky cabin. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 90

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

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

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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.

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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:pg7885:18:90
# text = Catch us, indeed, going within a hen's race of that unlucky cabin!"
1	Catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	within	within	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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:** «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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