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title: Hard-baked is thy bread, 'Tis not easy to catch me, — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Hard-baked is thy bread, 'Tis not easy to catch me, A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 7

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Hard-baked is thy bread, 'Tis not easy to catch me,

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**What happens:** bake, be, catch · **To what, where:** baked bread, me

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:11:7
# text = Hard-baked is thy bread, 'Tis not easy to catch me,
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	csubj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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