English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 49
And Sir William came wooing the eldest and won her love and plighted troth with glove and with ring.
Who acts: William · What happens: come, woo, win, plight, love · To what, where: eldest, love
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (William), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 William | nmod:desc |
| 3 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wooing | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 came | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eldest | det |
| 7 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 wooing | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 won | cc |
| 9 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 love | nmod:poss |
| 11 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 won | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 troth | cc |
| 13 | plighted | plight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 troth | amod |
| 14 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 love | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 glove | case |
| 16 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 troth | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ring | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 ring | case |
| 19 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 glove | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | William Sir | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | woo | gerund | William Sir not said here | the eldest | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eld=Patient | ||||
| 3 | win | past | William Sir not said here | William's love and plighted troth with glove and ring | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | plight | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | love | William | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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: «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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