Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 61

"And will you direct me to where she dwells? and the reward of your directing me will be as good as the reward of your message," said the king.

Who acts: you, Erin, your, reward, king · What happens: direct, dwell, be, say, reward · To what, where: king, message · 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 (you, Erin, your, reward), 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	_	5 direct	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 direct	cc
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 direct	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 direct	nsubj
5	direct	direct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 said	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 direct	obj
7	to	to	SCONJ	_	10 dwells	mark
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 dwells	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dwells	nsubj
10	dwells	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 direct	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 direct	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 good	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reward	det
14	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 good	nsubj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 directing	mark
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 directing	nsubj
17	directing	direct	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 reward	acl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 directing	obj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 good	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 good	cop
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 good	advmod
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 direct	conj
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 reward	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 reward	det
25	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 good	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 message	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 message	nmod:poss
28	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reward	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 direct	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 direct	punct
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 king	det
33	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	direct in a quote	future	you	the king = king		vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	dwell in a quote	present	Erin			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	direct in a quote	gerund	your	the king = king		vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	is in a quote	future	the reward		as the reward of your message; good property	tree rules
5	say speech: ask	past	the king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	reward in a quote			your message		nom reward «event transitive»: of=patient

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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