Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 169

"Well, I will stop them," said the magician, "until the company you send in pursuit return."

Who acts: magician, you · What happens: stop, say, send · To what, where: King, pursuit return · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, you), 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	_	6 stop	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 stop	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 stop	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stop	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stop	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 stop	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 magician	det
12	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
15	until	until	ADP	_	17 company	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 company	det
17	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 send	obl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 send	nsubj
19	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 return	case
21	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 return	compound
22	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 send	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 send	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stop in a quote	future	the magician = magician	King			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector they=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	the magician				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	send in a quote	present	you		pursuit return	until the company	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in return=Destination

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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