Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 39

Now," said the lad, "you must turn back on the self-same steps, and lie a night in each house as before; but you must not loose the bundle which I gave ye, till in the place where you would most wish to dwell."

Who acts: you, bundle · What happens: say, turn back, lie, not lose, give, wish · To what, where: lad, house, bundle, ye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bundle), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lad	det
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turn	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 turn	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 turn	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 turn	aux
11	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 turn	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	18 steps	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 steps	det
15	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 same	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 self	punct
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 steps	amod
18	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turn	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lie	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lie	cc
21	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 turn	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lie	obl:unmarked
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 house	case
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 house	det
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lie	obl
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 before	case
28	before	before	ADV	_	21 lie	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 loose	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 loose	cc
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 loose	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 loose	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 loose	advmod
34	loose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bundle	det
36	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 loose	obj
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 gave	nsubj
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 gave	nsubj
39	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 bundle	acl:relcl
40	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	39 gave	iobj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 place	punct
42	till	till	ADP	_	45 place	case
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 place	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 place	det
45	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 gave	obl
46	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	50 wish	advmod
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 wish	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 wish	aux
49	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	50 wish	amod
50	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 place	nmod
51	to	to	PART	_	52 dwell	mark
52	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 wish	acl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 loose	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 loose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the lad			now		tree rules
2	turn back	must	you					on the same steps	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lie	infinitive	you not said here			each house	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location
4	not lose	must	you	the bundle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Eventuality
5	give	past	the bundle		ye		till the place		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme
6	wish	would	you						tree rules
7	dwell	to-infinitive	the bundle not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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