Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 17

“I would advise you,” said Crede’ in a low voice, “to seek no more for the sweet daughter of Morgan, but to stay in this place where all that is lovely is at your service.”

Who acts: Crede, that · What happens: advise, say, seek, stay, be · To what, where: you, low voice, more, place, lovely service · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crede, that), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 advise	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 advise	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 advise	aux
4	advise	advise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 advise	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 advise	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 advise	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Crede	Crede	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 Crede	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 voice	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 voice	det
13	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 voice	amod
14	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seek	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 seek	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 seek	mark
18	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
19	no	no	ADV	_	20 more	advmod
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 seek	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 daughter	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 daughter	det
23	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 daughter	amod
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 more	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Morgan	case
26	Morgan	Morgan	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 daughter	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stay	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 stay	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 stay	mark
30	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 seek	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 place	case
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 place	det
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stay	obl
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 lovely	advmod
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 lovely	det:predet
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 lovely	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 lovely	cop
38	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 service	amod
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 service	cop
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 service	case
41	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 service	nmod:poss
42	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 place	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 seek	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 seek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	advise speech: other in a quote	would	Crede		you			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Crede			a low voice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seek in a quote	to-infinitive		more				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
4	stay in a quote	to-infinitive				this place		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
5	is in a quote	present	that				lovely property	tree rules
6	is in a quote	present				your lovely service		tree rules

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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