Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 196
Break not to-day, my heart: soon enough shall I lie within my grave.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not break, lie · To what, where: heart
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 (you, 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 | Break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Break | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 to | punct |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Break | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heart | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Break | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 lie | punct |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 lie | advmod |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 lie | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 lie | nsubj |
| 14 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Break | conj |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 17 grave | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 grave | nmod:poss |
| 17 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lie | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not break | imperative | you not said here | my heart | day | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | lie | shall | I | within my grave; soon property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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