Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 15
May I make bold to ask how is your goose, King O'Toole?" says he.
Who acts: I, bold · What happens: make, ask, be, say · To what, where: bold, goose, O'Toole · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, King O'toole and His Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bold), 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | bold | bold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ask | mark |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | xcomp |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 goose | advmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 goose | cop |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 goose | nmod:poss |
| 10 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 O'Toole | punct |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 O'Toole | compound |
| 13 | O'Toole | O'Toole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 goose | appos |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | parataxis |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 says | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | may | I | bold | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | bold not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | your goose | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | O'Toole | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=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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