English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 54

Now he not long before had mended the shoes of an old hermit, who, having no money gave him a box of ointment for the cure of the leprosy, and a bottle of spirits for a harsh voice.

Who acts: cobbler, old hermit, shoes · What happens: not mend, have, give · To what, where: bottle, money, box, cobbler

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cobbler, old hermit, shoes), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 mended	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mended	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 mended	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 before	advmod
5	before	before	ADV	_	7 mended	advmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mended	aux
7	mended	mend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shoes	det
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 gave	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 hermit	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hermit	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hermit	amod
13	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shoes	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 having	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 having	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 having	punct
17	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 hermit	acl:relcl
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 money	det
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 having	obj
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mended	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	iobj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 box	det
23	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 ointment	case
25	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 box	nmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 cure	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cure	det
28	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ointment	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 leprosy	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 leprosy	det
31	leprosy	leprosy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cure	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bottle	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bottle	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bottle	det
35	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mended	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 spirits	case
37	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 bottle	nmod
38	for	for	ADP	_	41 voice	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 voice	det
40	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 voice	amod
41	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 spirits	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 mended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not mend	past · perfect	cobbler	a bottle of spirits for a harsh voice		now	before property	tree rules
2	have	gerund	a old hermit	no money				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
3	give	past	the shoes of a old hermit	a box of ointment for the cure of the leprosy	cobbler			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient box=Theme

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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