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title: Now," says he, "this is the bargain I'll make with you, King O'Toole… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now," says he, "this is the bargain I'll make with you, King O'Toole: will you gi' me all the ground the goose flies over, the first offer, after I make her as good as new?" Who acts: this, I, you, goose. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, King O'toole and His Goose, with its depen
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 31

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Now," says he, "this is the bargain I'll make with you, King O'Toole: will you gi' me all the ground the goose flies over, the first offer, after I make her as good as new?"

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**Who acts:** this, I, you, goose · **What happens:** say, be, make, gi, fly over · **To what, where:** Saint, bargain, me, gi, goose · **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 (this, I, you, goose), 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:pg7885:16:31
# text = Now," says he, "this is the bargain I'll make with you, King O'Toole: will you gi' me all the ground the goose flies over, the first offer, after I make her as good as new?"
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
19	O'Toole	O'Toole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	gi	GI	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
32	over	over	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	_
36	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
41	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	as	as	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  | Saint |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this | the bargain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | future | I | the bargain *not said here* |  |  |  | with you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product |
| 4 | **gi** | future | you | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly over** | present | the goose | gi and the first offer *not said here* |  |  |  | over *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gi=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | present | I | goose |  |  |  | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product |

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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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