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title: But the sprightly tailor gained his reward: for Macdonald paid him h… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor, with its dependen
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 29

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg7885:12:29
# text = 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.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sprightly	sprightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Macdonald	Macdonald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	trews	trew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	stitches	stitch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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:** «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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