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title: And Sir William came wooing the eldest and won her love and plighted… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Sir William came wooing the eldest and won her love and plighted troth with glove and with ring. Who acts: William. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 49

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And Sir William came wooing the eldest and won her love and plighted troth with glove and with ring.

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**Who acts:** William · **What happens:** come, woo, win, plight, love · **To what, where:** eldest, love

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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.

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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:pg7439:13:49
# text = And Sir William came wooing the eldest and won her love and plighted troth with glove and with ring.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wooing	woo	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	plighted	plight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	troth	troth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	glove	glove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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