Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 10

I might as well lie down and die at once.

Who acts: I · What happens: lie down, die

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. 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	5 lie	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	aux
3	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	5 lie	cc
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 as	fixed
5	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 lie	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 die	cc
8	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 die	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	might	I						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die	present	I not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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