More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 45

So when she came Gobborn Seer could see she was a witty woman, and he asked her if she would marry his Jack.

Who acts: girl, Gobborn Seer, Seer · What happens: come, see, be, ask, marry · To what, where: witty woman, girl, Jack · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Gobborn Seer, Seer), 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	_	4 came	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Gobborn	Gobborn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Seer	compound
6	Seer	seer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 woman	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 woman	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	witty	witty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asked	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	iobj
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 marry	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 marry	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 marry	aux
22	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 asked	xcomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 Jack	nmod:poss
24	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 marry	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come	past	girl			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	could	Gobborn Seer			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	girl	a witty woman		tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	past	Seer		girl	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	marry a condition, not said to happen	would	girl	Seer's Jack		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=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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