Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 26
The minute the saint clapt his eyes on the goose, "I'll do the job for you," says he, "King O'Toole."
Who acts: saint · What happens: clapt, do, say · To what, where: eyes, job, Saint · 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 minute | det |
| 2 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clapt | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 saint | det |
| 4 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clapt | nsubj |
| 5 | clapt | clapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clapt | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 goose | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 goose | det |
| 10 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clapt | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 clapt | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 job | det |
| 17 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 says | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 says | punct |
| 22 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 clapt | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 says | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 O'Toole | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 O'Toole | punct |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 O'Toole | compound |
| 27 | O'Toole | O'Toole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 says | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 says | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clapt | past | the saint | Saint's eyes | minute | on the goose | tree rules | ||
| 2 | do in a quote | future | the saint = saint | the job | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the saint not said here | Saint | King O'Toole obl | 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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