Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 62
"Well, I will direct you, O king, although it is likely that this will not be what they want," said the hunter.
Who acts: hunter, it, this, King · What happens: direct, be, not be, want, say · To what, where: you · 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 (hunter, it, this, King), 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 direct | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 direct | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 direct | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 direct | aux |
| 6 | direct | direct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 said | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 direct | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 king | punct |
| 9 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 king | compound |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 direct | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 likely | punct |
| 12 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 15 likely | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 likely | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 likely | cop |
| 15 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 direct | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 what | mark |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 what | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 what | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 what | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 what | cop |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 likely | ccomp |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 want | nsubj |
| 23 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 direct | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 direct | punct |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hunter | det |
| 28 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | direct in a quote | future | the hunter = hunter | you | O king obl | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | it | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | future | this | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present | King | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the hunter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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