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title: Well, as for a wife, I have no hankering after such; they're but bot… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, as for a wife, I have no hankering after such; they're but bothersome bodies, and I have women folk at home as 'll mend my clouts; and for gold that's as may be, but for work, there, I can't abide work, and if thou 'lt give me a helpin' hand in it I'll thank--" Who acts: I, words, thou, my. A 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 77

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Well, as for a wife, I have no hankering after such; they're but bothersome bodies, and I have women folk at home as 'll mend my clouts; and for gold that's as may be, but for work, there, I can't abide work, and if thou 'lt give me a helpin' hand in it I'll thank--"

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**Who acts:** I, words, thou, my · **What happens:** have, be, mend, not abide, lt, give · **To what, where:** hankering, bothersome bodies, women, clouts, work, hand

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, words, thou, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:17:77
# text = Well, as for a wife, I have no hankering after such; they're but bothersome bodies, and I have women folk at home as 'll mend my clouts; and for gold that's as may be, but for work, there, I can't abide work, and if thou 'lt give me a helpin' hand in it I'll thank--"
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	hankering	hankering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	bothersome	bothersome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	mend	mend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	clouts	clout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	70	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	obl	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	70	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	be	be	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
47	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	70	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	52	advmod	_	_
52	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	parataxis	_	_
53	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
56	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
57	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	59	nsubj	_	_
58	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	lt	lt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	advcl	_	_
60	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	conj	_	_
61	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	60	iobj	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	helpin	helpin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	'	's	PART	POS	_	63	case	_	_
65	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	_
66	in	in	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obl	_	_
68	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	70	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	70	aux	_	_
70	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | no hankering |  |  | after such | as a wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hankering=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | words *= word* | bothersome bodies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | I | women |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mend** | future | I *not said here* | my clouts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | may · present |  |  |  |  |  | be *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **abide** | can | I | work |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **lt** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **give** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a helpin's hand | me | work |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hand=Theme |
| 9 | **thank** *speech: thank* | future | I | that |  |  |  | for gold | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for gold=Attribute |
| 10 | **clout** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom clout «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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