Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 90

"'Tis a good trick," said O'Donnell; and he paid him his five pieces of silver.

Who acts: Tis, O'Donnell · What happens: say, pay · To what, where: Tis · 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 (Tis, O'Donnell), 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 Tis	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Tis	punct
3	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trick	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trick	amod
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Tis	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Tis	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Tis	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	O'Donnell	O'Donnell	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 paid	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 paid	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 paid	nsubj
14	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 paid	obj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 pieces	nmod:poss
17	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 pieces	nummod
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 paid	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 silver	case
20	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pieces	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Tis						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	pay	past	O'Donnell		Tis				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Asset

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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