English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 57
“Well,” said the cobbler, “if I restore you to your natural complexion, and make a sound cure both in face and voice, will you in reward take me for a husband?”
Who acts: cobbler, you · What happens: say, restore, make, take · To what, where: you, natural complexion, sound cure, face, cobbler, reward · 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, you), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cobbler | det |
| 7 | cobbler | cobbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 restore | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 restore | nsubj |
| 12 | restore | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 make | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 restore | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 complexion | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 complexion | nmod:poss |
| 16 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 complexion | amod |
| 17 | complexion | complexion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 restore | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 restore | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 make | cc |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cure | det |
| 22 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cure | compound |
| 23 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 24 | both | both | ADV | _ | 20 make | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 face | case |
| 26 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 voice | cc |
| 28 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 face | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 take | punct |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 take | aux |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 take | nsubj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 reward | case |
| 33 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 take | obl |
| 34 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 take | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 husband | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 husband | det |
| 38 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 take | obl |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 34 take | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the cobbler | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | restore a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the cobbler = cobbler | you | your natural complexion | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to complexion=Recipient | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | the cobbler not said here | a sound cure | face and voice | both property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cure=Product | ||
| 4 | take in a quote | future | you | the cobbler = cobbler | reward | for a husband | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Value in reward=Location |
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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