Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 25

With that the king whistled, and down came the poor goose, just like a hound, waddling up to the poor cripple, her master, and as like him as two peas.

Who acts: king · What happens: whistle, come, waddle up, like · To what, where: poor goose, poor cripple, king

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 (king), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 whistled	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whistled	nsubj
5	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
8	down	down	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 whistled	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 goose	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 goose	amod
12	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hound	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	17 hound	advmod
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 hound	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hound	det
17	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 goose	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 waddling	punct
19	waddling	waddle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 came	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 waddling	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 cripple	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cripple	det
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cripple	amod
24	cripple	cripple	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 waddling	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 master	punct
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 master	nmod:poss
27	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cripple	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 like	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 like	cc
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 like	advmod
31	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 whistled	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 like	obj
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 peas	case
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 peas	nummod
35	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 like	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 whistled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	whistle	past	the king			with that	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with that=Theme
2	come	past	the king not said here	the poor goose and a hound		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location goose=Theme
3	waddle up	gerund	the king not said here		the poor cripple		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cripple=Destination
4	like	infinitive	the king not said here	king		as two peas	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=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.

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