--- title: “Old as I am,” replied the cobbler, “I have very good eyes, and will… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Old as I am,” replied the cobbler, “I have very good eyes, and will you believe me when I tell you that I sewed a dead body together in a place where I had less light than I have now.” Who acts: Old, you. 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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 (Old, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:34:75 # text = “Old as I am,” replied the cobbler, “I have very good eyes, and will you believe me when I tell you that I sewed a dead body together in a place where I had less light than I have now.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 nsubj _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cobbler cobbler NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 sewed sew VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 together together ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 38 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 40 advmod _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 amod _ _ 42 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 than than SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 46 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ” " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Old | the cobbler | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Old | good eyes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 3 | **believe** *in a quote* | future | you | | Old | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Old | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **sew** *in a quote* | past | Old | a dead body | | a place | | together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme in place=Destination | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Old | less light | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient | | 7 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Old | | | | now | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/34/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/34/76/) - ↑ back to [The Forty Thieves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/34/)