Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 47

"It's well for you, King O'Toole, that you said that word," says he; "for if you didn't say that word, the devil the bit o' your goose would ever fly agin."

Who acts: sun, you, goose · What happens: be, say, not say, fly · To what, where: word, agin · 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 (sun, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 you	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 you	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 you	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 you	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 King	punct
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 you	appos
9	O'Toole	O'Toole	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 King	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 said	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 says	mark
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 says	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 word	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 says	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 say	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 say	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 say	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 say	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 say	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 say	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 say	advmod
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 says	conj
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 word	det
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 say	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 devil	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 devil	det
32	devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 word	appos
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bit	det
34	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 devil	appos
35	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	41 fly	mark
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	41 fly	punct
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 goose	nmod:poss
38	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fly	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 fly	aux
40	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	41 fly	advmod
41	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 bit	acl
42	agin	agin	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fly	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	sun			for you; well property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	present		word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	not say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · do-support	you	that word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
5	fly in a quote	would	your goose	agin	ever		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location agin=Theme

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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