Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 23

"No," says the saint; "I'm no tinker by trade, King O'Toole; I've a better trade than a tinker," says he--"what would you say," says he, "if I made your old goose as good as new?"

Who acts: saint, you, I · What happens: say, be, have, make · To what, where: tinker, better trade, Saint, old goose · 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 (saint, you, I), 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 says	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 says	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 saint	det
7	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 tinker	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tinker	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tinker	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tinker	cop
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 tinker	det
13	tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	ccomp
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 trade	case
15	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tinker	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 King	punct
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tinker	appos
18	O'Toole	O'Toole	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 King	flat
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 've	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 've	nsubj
21	've	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 trade	det
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 trade	amod
24	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 've	obj
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 tinker	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tinker	det
27	tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 trade	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 says	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 says	punct
30	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 've	parataxis
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 says	obj
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 say	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 say	punct
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 say	obj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 say	aux
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 say	nsubj
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 says	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 says	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 says	punct
40	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 say	parataxis
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 says	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 made	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 made	punct
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 made	mark
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 made	nsubj
46	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 says	conj
47	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 goose	nmod:poss
48	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 goose	amod
49	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 made	obj
50	as	as	ADV	_	51 good	advmod
51	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 made	xcomp
52	as	as	ADP	_	53 new	case
53	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 good	obl
54	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the saint			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	the saint = saint	no tinker	by trade	tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	the saint = saint	a better trade	than a tinker	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present		Saint		tree rules
5	say speech: assert in a quote	would	you			tree rules
6	say speech: ask	present		Saint		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
7	make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	I	your old goose	good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=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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