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title: My dear, at the word of making his goose as good as new, you'd think… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: My dear, at the word of making his goose as good as new, you'd think the poor old king's eyes were ready to jump out of his head. Who acts: word, you, eyes. 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 24

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My dear, at the word of making his goose as good as new, you'd think the poor old king's eyes were ready to jump out of his head.

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**Who acts:** word, you, eyes · **What happens:** make, think, be, jump out · **To what, where:** goose, head · **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 (word, you, eyes), 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:pg7885:16:24
# text = My dear, at the word of making his goose as good as new, you'd think the poor old king's eyes were ready to jump out of his head.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund | the word *not said here* | Saint's goose |  |  |  | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset goose=Product |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the poor old king's eyes |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **jump out** | to-infinitive | the poor old king's eyes *not said here* | king's head |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Trajectory |

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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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