English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 25
For the Earl Mar wished to marry his daughter to a noble of high degree who came wooing her.
Who acts: high degree · What happens: wish, marry, come, woo · To what, where: daughter
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (high degree), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 Mar | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Mar | det |
| 3 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mar | compound |
| 4 | Mar | March | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 5 wished | obl |
| 5 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 marry | mark |
| 7 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wished | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marry | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 noble | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 noble | det |
| 12 | noble | noble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marry | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 degree | case |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 degree | amod |
| 15 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noble | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 degree | acl:relcl |
| 18 | wooing | woo | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 came | advcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wooing | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | march | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | trouble's daughter | to a noble of high degree | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient to noble=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | past | high degree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | woo | gerund | high degree not said here | daughter | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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: «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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