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title: That would be far more fitting than to send a poor old woman like me… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 83

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:33:83
# text = 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.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	fitting	fitting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	wooing	woo	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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