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title: May I make bold to ask how is your goose, King O'Toole?" says he. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: May I make bold to ask how is your goose, King O'Toole?" says he. Who acts: I, bold. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, King O'toole and His Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 15

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May I make bold to ask how is your goose, King O'Toole?" says he.

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**Who acts:** I, bold · **What happens:** make, ask, be, say · **To what, where:** bold, goose, O'Toole · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, bold), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:16:15
# text = May I make bold to ask how is your goose, King O'Toole?" says he.
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	bold	bold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	O'Toole	O'Toole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
16	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | may | I | bold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | bold *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | your goose |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  | O'Toole |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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.

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**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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