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title: "Fifty pounds was what I bargained for," said the piper shortly; "an… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Fifty pounds was what I bargained for," said the piper shortly; "and if I were you I'd pay it quickly. Who acts: Fifty pounds, piper, you. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 50

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"Fifty pounds was what I bargained for," said the piper shortly; "and if I were you I'd pay it quickly.

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**Who acts:** Fifty pounds, piper, you · **What happens:** be, bargain, say, pay · **To what, where:** you, Piper · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fifty pounds, piper, you), 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:pg14241:15:50
# text = "Fifty pounds was what I bargained for," said the piper shortly; "and if I were you I'd pay it quickly.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj:outer	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bargained	bargain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	piper	piper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Fifty pounds |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bargain** *in a quote* | past | the piper *= piper* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the piper |  |  |  |  | shortly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | the piper *= piper* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pay** *in a quote* | would | you | Piper |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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