Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 13
Having laid down the rule, I immediately proceeded to break it.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, lay down, proceed, break · To what, where: rule
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_. 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 proceeded | advcl |
| 2 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 rule | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rule | det |
| 5 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laid | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 proceeded | nsubj |
| 8 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 9 proceeded | advmod |
| 9 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 break | mark |
| 11 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 proceeded | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 break | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lay down | participle | I not said here | the rule | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Result | ||||
| 3 | proceed | past | I | immediately property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | break | to-infinitive | I not said here | rule | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
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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