English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 17

“But middling; he cobbles old shoes, and he has nothing but cabbage for victuals.”

Who acts: man · What happens: cobble, have · To what, where: middling, nothing

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	_	6 cobbles	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 middling	cc
3	middling	middling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cobbles	obl
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 middling	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cobbles	nsubj
6	cobbles	cobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shoes	amod
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cobbles	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 has	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 has	nsubj
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cobbles	conj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 has	obj
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 cabbage	cc
15	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nothing	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 victuals	case
17	victuals	victual	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 nothing	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cobbles	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 cobbles	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cobble in a quote	present	man	middling					tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	man	nothing				for victuals	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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