--- title: THE COBBLER TURNED DOCTOR A very unskilful Cobbler, finding himself… — Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop · tree and pragmatics description: THE COBBLER TURNED DOCTOR A very unskilful Cobbler, finding himself unable to make a living at his trade, gave up mending boots and took to doctoring instead. Who acts: COBBLER, unskilful Cobbler. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (COBBLER, unskilful Cobbler), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg11339:682 # text = THE COBBLER TURNED DOCTOR A very unskilful Cobbler, finding himself unable to make a living at his trade, gave up mending boots and took to doctoring instead. # source = Project Gutenberg (public domain in the USA), book id in sent_id # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18 1 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 COBBLER cobbler NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 TURNED turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 DOCTOR doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 5 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 unskilful unskilful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Cobbler cobbler NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 11 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ _ 12 unable unable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 mending mend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 24 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 to to SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 doctoring doctor VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 advcl _ _ 29 instead instead ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | the COBBLER | DOCTOR | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **find** | gerund | a unskilful Cobbler *not said here* | COBBLER | | | | unable *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | COBBLER *not said here* | a living | | COBBLER's trade | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product | | 4 | **give up** | past | a unskilful Cobbler | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mend** | gerund | a unskilful Cobbler *not said here* | boots | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **take** | past | a unskilful Cobbler *not said here* | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **doctor** | gerund | a unskilful Cobbler *not said here* | | | | | instead *property* | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **trade** | | COBBLER | | | | | | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=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:** «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). **Annotation:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`mova-tales-silver-en.conllu`), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence `gutenberg:pg11339:682`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.3/). - ← previous: [Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by…, 585](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11339/585/) - next →: [Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by…, 769](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11339/769/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11339/)