Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 20
"Well, honest man," says the king, "and how is it you make your money so aisy?"
Who acts: honest man, Blur, you · What happens: say, be, make · To what, where: king, money · 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 (honest man, Blur, you), 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 | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 man | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 king | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 king | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 make | cc |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 make | advmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 how | cop |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 how | nsubj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 make | nsubj |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | conj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 money | nmod:poss |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 aisy | advmod |
| 22 | aisy | aisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | xcomp |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | honest man | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Blur | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | you | your money | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Product |
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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