Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 195
I cannot eat or smile henceforth.
Who acts: I · What happens: not eat, smile
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 eat | advmod |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 smile | cc |
| 6 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 eat | conj |
| 7 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 6 smile | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | can | I | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | smile | infinitive | I not said here | henceforth property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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