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title: "Oh!" says the king, "if that's the way, let one of 'em turn out and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh!" says the king, "if that's the way, let one of 'em turn out and try his mettle." Who acts: king, that, one. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 36

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"Oh!" says the king, "if that's the way, let one of 'em turn out and try his mettle."

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**Who acts:** king, that, one · **What happens:** say, be, let, turn out, try · **To what, where:** way, mettle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, that, one), 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:pg7885:33:36
# text = "Oh!" says the king, "if that's the way, let one of 'em turn out and try his mettle."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	xcomp	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mettle	mettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | that | the way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn out** *in a quote* | present | one of 'em |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive | one of 'em *not said here* | King's mettle |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mettle=Eventuality |

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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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