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title: "I am a juggler," said the lank grey beggarman, "and for five pieces… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "I am a juggler," said the lank grey beggarman, "and for five pieces of silver you shall see a trick of mine." Who acts: juggler, you. 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 85

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"I am a juggler," said the lank grey beggarman, "and for five pieces of silver you shall see a trick of mine."

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**Who acts:** juggler, you · **What happens:** be, say, see, trick · **To what, where:** juggler, lank grey beggarman, trick, mine · **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 (juggler, 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:pg7885:20:85
# text = "I am a juggler," said the lank grey beggarman, "and for five pieces of silver you shall see a trick of mine."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	juggler	juggler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	lank	lank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	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* | present | a juggler *= juggler* | a juggler |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a juggler | the lank grey beggarman and five pieces of silver |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | shall | you | a trick of mine |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus |
| 4 | **trick** *in a quote* |  |  | mine |  |  |  |  | nom trick «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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