Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 24

My dear, at the word of making his goose as good as new, you'd think the poor old king's eyes were ready to jump out of his head.

Who acts: word, you, eyes · What happens: make, think, be, jump out · To what, where: goose, head · 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 (word, you, eyes), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dear	nmod:poss
2	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 think	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 word	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dear	conj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 making	mark
8	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 word	acl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 goose	nmod:poss
10	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 making	obj
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 good	advmod
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 making	xcomp
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 new	case
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 good	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 think	nsubj
17	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 think	aux
18	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 king	amod
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 king	amod
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eyes	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 king	case
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ready	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ready	cop
26	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 think	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 jump	mark
28	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ready	xcomp
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 head	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 head	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 jump	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	the word not said here	Saint's goose	good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset goose=Product
2	think speech: other	would	you			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the poor old king's eyes		ready property	tree rules
4	jump out	to-infinitive	the poor old king's eyes not said here	king's head		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Trajectory

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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