Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 39

"And what do you say to me," says 'Saint Kavin, "for making her the like?"

Who acts: you, Saint · What happens: say, make · To what, where: Saint, like, 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 (you, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 says	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 say	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 Saint	punct
13	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
14	Kavin	Kavin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Saint	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 making	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 making	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 making	mark
18	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 says	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 making	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 like	det
21	like	like	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 making	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 making	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 making	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present · do-support	you		Saint	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to i=Recipient
2	say speech: ask	present	Saint			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make in a quote	gerund		the like	goose	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary like=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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