--- title: Now," said the lad, "you must turn back on the self-same steps, and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [The Battle of the Birds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/) / 39 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:31:39 # text = 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." 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 12 back back ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 before before ADV RB _ 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 loose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 bundle bundle NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 till till ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 46 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 50 advmod _ _ 47 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 48 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 49 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 50 amod _ _ 50 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 52 mark _ _ 52 dwell dwell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/40/) - ↑ back to [The Battle of the Birds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/)