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title: "Five pieces of silver twice over for each of them," said the juggle… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "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. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 116

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

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

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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.

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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:pg7885:20:116
# text = "Five pieces of silver twice over for each of them," said the juggler, "and their heads shall be on them as before."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	juggler	juggler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	before	before	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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