Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 100
Wouldn't it be a fine thing for a farmer to be marrying a princess, all dressed in gold and jewels?"
Who acts: leave, fine thing · What happens: not be, marry, dress · To what, where: fine thing, princess, all, gold
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leave, fine thing), 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 thing | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 thing | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thing | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thing | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 farmer | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 farmer | det |
| 10 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 marrying | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 marrying | aux |
| 13 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 farmer | acl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marrying | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dressed | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 thing | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dressed | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 jewels | cc |
| 22 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gold | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 dressed | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | would | leave | a fine thing | for a farmer | tree rules | |||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive · progressive | leave not said here | a princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dress | participle · passive | a fine thing not said here | all | gold and jewels | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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