More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 66

So he went a-courting a fine maid, and he said to her: "Will you marry me?"

Who acts: farmer, maid · What happens: go, court, say, marry · To what, where: fine maid, maid, farmer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, maid), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 courting	det
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 a	punct
6	courting	court	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 maid	det
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 maid	amod
9	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 courting	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 marry	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 marry	punct
18	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 marry	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 marry	nsubj
20	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 marry	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 marry	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	go	past	farmer			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	court	gerund	farmer not said here	a fine maid		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Co-Agent
3	say speech: ask	past	farmer		maid	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	marry in a quote	future	maid	farmer		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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: «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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