Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 5

Oh, you may laugh, if you like, but it's truth I'm telling you; and the way the goose diverted him was this-a-way: You see, the goose used to swim across the lake, and go diving for trout, and catch fish on a Friday for the king, and flew every other day round about the lake, diverting the poor king.

Who acts: you, heart, I, goose, way · What happens: laugh, like, be, tell, divert, see · To what, where: truth, you, king, way, goose, lake · 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, heart, I, 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 laugh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 laugh	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 laugh	aux
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 like	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 like	nsubj
9	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 laugh	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 truth	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 truth	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 truth	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 truth	cop
14	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laugh	parataxis
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 telling	nsubj
16	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 telling	aux
17	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 truth	nmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 telling	iobj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 way	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 way	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 way	nsubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 goose	det
24	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 diverted	nsubj
25	diverted	divert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 way	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 diverted	obj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 way	cop
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 way	nsubj
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 way	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 way	det
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 a	punct
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laugh	parataxis
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 see	punct
34	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 see	nsubj
35	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 way	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 goose	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 goose	det
38	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 see	obj
39	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 goose	acl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 swim	mark
41	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 used	xcomp
42	across	across	ADP	_	44 lake	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 lake	det
44	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 swim	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 go	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 go	cc
47	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 see	conj
48	diving	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 go	xcomp
49	for	for	ADP	_	50 trout	case
50	trout	trout	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 diving	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 catch	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 catch	cc
53	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 see	conj
54	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 catch	obj
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 Friday	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 Friday	det
57	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 catch	obl
58	for	for	ADP	_	60 king	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 king	det
60	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 catch	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 flew	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 flew	cc
63	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laugh	parataxis
64	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	66 day	det
65	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 day	amod
66	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 flew	obl:unmarked
67	round	round	ADV	_	63 flew	advmod
68	about	about	ADP	_	70 lake	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 lake	det
70	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 flew	obl
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 diverting	punct
72	diverting	divert	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	63 flew	advcl
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 king	det
74	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 king	amod
75	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 diverting	obj
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	may	you						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a	present	heart	truth					tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	divert	past	the goose	king					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
6	is a	past	the way	a way					tree rules
7	see	present	You	the goose					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goose=Stimulus
8	use	participle		the goose not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	swim	to-infinitive				the lake			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across lake=Trajectory
10	go	infinitive	You not said here						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	dive	gerund	You not said here					for trout	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for trout=Theme
12	catch	present	You not said here	fish			friday	for the king	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fish=Theme for king=Beneficiary
13	fly	past					day	about the lake; round property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about lake=Location
14	divert	gerund		the poor king					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer

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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