English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 55
So the cobbler having a mind to do an act of charity, was induced to go up to her and ask her who she was.
Who acts: cobbler, mind, hermit, charity · What happens: have, do, induce, go up, ask, be · To what, where: mind, act, cobbler, hermit · Speech: someone speaks here
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, mind, hermit, charity), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 15 induced | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cobbler | det |
| 3 | cobbler | cobbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 induced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 cobbler | acl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mind | det |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 having | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 having | xcomp |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 act | det |
| 10 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 charity | case |
| 12 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 act | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cobbler | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 induced | aux:pass |
| 15 | induced | induce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 induced | xcomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 go | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ask | cc |
| 22 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ask | iobj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 ask | ccomp |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 who | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 who | cop |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 induced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the cobbler not said here | a mind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | a mind not said here | a act of charity | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | induce | past · passive | the cobbler | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | go up | to-infinitive | hermit | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | hermit | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | hermit | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | act | charity | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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