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title: “Well,” said the cobbler, “if I restore you to your natural complexi… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “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. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well, with its dependency tree and the
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# English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 57

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“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?”

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**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

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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, you), 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:pg7439:49:57
# text = “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?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	restore	restore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	complexion	complexion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	both	both	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
34	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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