Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 43

"But will you gi'e me all the ground the goose flew over?" says Saint Kavin.

Who acts: you, goose, Saint · What happens: gi'e, fly over, say · To what, where: Saint, ground · 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, goose, 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	_	5 gi'e	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 gi'e	cc
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 gi'e	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 gi'e	nsubj
5	gi'e	gi'e	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 says	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 gi'e	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 ground	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gi'e	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 goose	det
11	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flew	nsubj
12	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ground	acl:relcl
13	over	over	ADV	_	12 flew	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gi'e	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 gi'e	punct
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 says	nsubj
18	Kavin	Kavin	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Saint	flat
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gi'e in a quote	future	you	Saint		tree rules
2	fly over in a quote	past	the goose	all ground not said here	over property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ground=Theme
3	say speech: ask	present	Saint			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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