English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 26

The wife told him that she had sent it by a soldier to her former husband in Paradise, to buy him leather for cobbling the shoes of the saints and angels of Heaven.

Who acts: wife · What happens: tell, send, buy, leather, cobble · To what, where: Deary, money, former husband, shoes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 sent	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sent	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sent	aux
8	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sent	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 soldier	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 soldier	det
12	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 husband	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 husband	nmod:poss
15	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 husband	amod
16	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Paradise	case
18	Paradise	Paradise	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 husband	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 buy	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 buy	mark
21	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 buy	iobj
23	leather	leather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 buy	xcomp
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 cobbling	mark
25	cobbling	cobble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 leather	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 shoes	det
27	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cobbling	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 saints	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 saints	det
30	saints	saint	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shoes	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 angels	cc
32	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 saints	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Heaven	case
34	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 angels	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the wife		Deary		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	send	past · perfect	wife	money	wife's former husband in Paradise	by a soldier	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to husband=Destination
3	buy	to-infinitive	the wife not said here		Deary		tree rules
4	leather	infinitive	the wife not said here				tree rules
5	cobble	gerund	the wife not said here	the shoes of the saints and angels of Heaven			tree rules

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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