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title: So the cobbler having a mind to do an act of charity, was induced to… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 55

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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.

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**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

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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.

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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:pg7439:49:55
# text = 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.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	induced	induce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	ccomp	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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