Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 116

"Five pieces of silver twice over for each of them," said the juggler, "and their heads shall be on them as before."

Who acts: Five pieces · What happens: say, be · To what, where: juggler · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Five pieces), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 pieces	punct
2	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pieces	nummod
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 said	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 silver	case
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	nmod
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 over	advmod
7	over	over	ADV	_	3 pieces	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 each	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 pieces	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 each	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pieces	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 pieces	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 juggler	det
16	juggler	juggler	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 juggler	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 juggler	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 heads	cc
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 heads	nmod:poss
21	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 juggler	conj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 them	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 them	cop
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 juggler	conj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 before	advmod
27	before	before	ADV	_	14 said	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Five pieces of silver for each	the juggler and hounds's heads				before property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent juggler=Topic
2	is in a quote	shall	Five pieces of silver for each not said here					on hounds = hound	tree rules

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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