Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 7
Hard-baked is thy bread, 'Tis not easy to catch me,
What happens: bake, be, catch · To what, where: baked bread, me
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 baked | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hard | punct |
| 3 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bread | amod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bread | cop |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 bread | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 easy | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 easy | punct |
| 9 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 easy | nsubj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 easy | advmod |
| 11 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bread | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 catch | mark |
| 13 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 easy | csubj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 catch | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | thy baked bread | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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