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title: "And will you direct me to where she dwells? and the reward of your… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "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. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 61

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"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.

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**Who acts:** you, Erin, your, reward, king · **What happens:** direct, dwell, be, say, reward · **To what, where:** king, message · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:13:61
# text = "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.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	direct	direct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dwells	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	directing	direct	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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