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title: Having laid down the rule, I immediately proceeded to break it. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Having laid down the rule, I immediately proceeded to break it. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 13

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Having laid down the rule, I immediately proceeded to break it.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, lay down, proceed, break · **To what, where:** rule

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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.

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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:pg7885:2:13
# text = Having laid down the rule, I immediately proceeded to break it.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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