Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 36
Come here!" says he to the poor old goose--"come here, you unfortunate ould cripple, and it's I that'll make you the sporting bird."
Who acts: you, cripple, I · What happens: come, say, cripple, be, make, sport · To what, where: I, sporting bird, you · 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 (you, cripple, 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 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 goose | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 goose | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 goose | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 goose | amod |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 goose | amod |
| 11 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 goose | parataxis |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cripple | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 cripple | nsubj |
| 18 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cripple | amod |
| 19 | ould | ould | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cripple | amod |
| 20 | cripple | cripple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 make | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 make | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 I | nsubj |
| 24 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 I | cop |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 make | nsubj |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 I | det |
| 27 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | conj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bird | det |
| 31 | sporting | sport | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 bird | amod |
| 32 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cripple | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | cripple | I | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | future | I | the sporting bird | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary bird=Product | |||
| 7 | sport | gerund | tree rules |
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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