The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 83

That would be far more fitting than to send a poor old woman like me a-wooing to the King’s Court for the hand of a Princess.

Who acts: That · What happens: be, send, woo · To what, where: poor old woman, Court

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 fitting	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fitting	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 fitting	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 fitting	amod
6	fitting	fitting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 send	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	9 send	mark
9	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fitting	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 send	obj
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 send	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wooing	det
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 wooing	punct
18	wooing	woo	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 send	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	23 Court	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 King	det
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Court	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 King	case
23	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 wooing	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 hand	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hand	det
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wooing	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Princess	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 Princess	det
29	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hand	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	That			fitting property	tree rules
2	send	to-infinitive	That not said here	a poor old woman		like me	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
3	woo	gerund	That not said here		the King's Court	for the hand of a Princess	vn compel-59.1-1 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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