--- title: Oh, you may laugh, if you like, but it's truth I'm telling you; and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/16/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [King O'toole and His Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/16/) / 5 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:16:5 # text = 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. 1 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 nmod _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 diverted divert VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 28 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 33 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 34 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 across across ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 48 diving dive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 xcomp _ _ 49 for for ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 trout trout NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 54 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obj _ _ 55 on on ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 58 for for ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 63 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 64 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 66 det _ _ 65 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 66 amod _ _ 66 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl:unmarked _ _ 67 round round ADV RB _ 63 advmod _ _ 68 about about ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 70 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 71 , , PUNCT , _ 72 punct _ _ 72 diverting divert VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 63 advcl _ _ 73 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 75 det _ _ 74 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 75 amod _ _ 75 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 76 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/16/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/16/6/) - ↑ back to [King O'toole and His Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/16/)