Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 29

But the sprightly tailor gained his reward: for Macdonald paid him handsomely for the trews, and never discovered that a few of the stitches were somewhat long.

Who acts: sprightly tailor, Macdonald, tailor · What happens: gain, pay, not discover, be, reward · To what, where: reward, tailor

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sprightly tailor, Macdonald, tailor), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 gained	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
3	sprightly	sprightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tailor	amod
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gained	nsubj
5	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 reward	nmod:poss
7	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gained	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 paid	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 paid	mark
10	Macdonald	Macdonald	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 paid	nsubj
11	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reward	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 paid	obj
13	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	_	11 paid	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 trews	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trews	det
16	trews	trew	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 paid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 discovered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 discovered	cc
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 discovered	advmod
20	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 paid	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 few	mark
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 few	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 long	xcomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 stitches	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stitches	det
26	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 few	nmod
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 long	cop
28	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	29 long	advmod
29	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 discovered	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gain	past	the sprightly tailor	tailor's reward		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme
2	pay	past	Macdonald	tailor	for the trews; handsomely property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Asset for trew=Theme
3	not discover	past	Macdonald not said here			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	is	past			few, long, somewhat property	tree rules
5	reward		tailor			nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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