Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 118

Five pieces, and again five were paid him, and lo! the lad had his head and the hound his.

Who acts: Five pieces, lad · What happens: pay, have · To what, where: five, head

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, lad), 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	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pieces	nummod
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 paid	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 paid	cc
5	again	again	ADV	_	6 five	advmod
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 paid	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 paid	aux:pass
8	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 pieces	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 paid	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
12	lo	lo	INTJ	_	16 had	discourse
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 lo	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lad	det
15	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pieces	acl:relcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hound	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hound	det
21	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 head	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pieces	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · passive	Five pieces not said here	five					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient he=Asset
2	have	past	the lad	O'Donnell's head and the hound					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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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