Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 31
Now," says he, "this is the bargain I'll make with you, King O'Toole: will you gi' me all the ground the goose flies over, the first offer, after I make her as good as new?"
Who acts: this, I, you, goose · What happens: say, be, make, gi, fly over · To what, where: Saint, bargain, me, gi, 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 (this, I, you, goose), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 says | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 says | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bargain | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bargain | punct |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 bargain | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bargain | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bargain | det |
| 11 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bargain | acl:relcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 make | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 King | punct |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bargain | appos |
| 19 | O'Toole | O'Toole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 King | flat |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 gi | punct |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 gi | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 gi | nsubj |
| 23 | gi | GI | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 me | punct |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 gi | nmod |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 ground | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ground | det |
| 28 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 me | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 goose | det |
| 30 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 flies | nsubj |
| 31 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 gi | acl:relcl |
| 32 | over | over | ADV | _ | 31 flies | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 offer | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 offer | det |
| 35 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 offer | amod |
| 36 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gi | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
| 38 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 40 make | mark |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 make | nsubj |
| 40 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 make | obj |
| 42 | as | as | ADV | _ | 43 good | advmod |
| 43 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 make | xcomp |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 new | case |
| 45 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 good | obl |
| 46 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Saint | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | the bargain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | future | I | the bargain not said here | with you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product | |||
| 4 | gi | future | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fly over | present | the goose | gi and the first offer not said here | over property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gi=Theme | |||
| 6 | make | present | I | goose | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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