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title: The minute the saint clapt his eyes on the goose, "I'll do the job f… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The minute the saint clapt his eyes on the goose, "I'll do the job for you," says he, "King O'Toole." Who acts: saint. 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 26

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The minute the saint clapt his eyes on the goose, "I'll do the job for you," says he, "King O'Toole."

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**Who acts:** saint · **What happens:** clapt, do, say · **To what, where:** eyes, job, Saint · **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 (saint), 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:pg7885:16:26
# text = The minute the saint clapt his eyes on the goose, "I'll do the job for you," says he, "King O'Toole."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	clapt	clapt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
22	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	O'Toole	O'Toole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clapt** | past | the saint | Saint's eyes |  |  | minute | on the goose | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | future | the saint *= saint* | the job |  |  |  | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the saint *not said here* | Saint |  |  |  | King O'Toole *obl* | 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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