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title: Wouldn't it be a fine thing for a farmer to be marrying a princess,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 100

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Wouldn't it be a fine thing for a farmer to be marrying a princess, all dressed in gold and jewels?"

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**Who acts:** leave, fine thing · **What happens:** not be, marry, dress · **To what, where:** fine thing, princess, all, gold

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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.

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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:pg7885:10:100
# text = Wouldn't it be a fine thing for a farmer to be marrying a princess, all dressed in gold and jewels?"
1	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	marrying	marry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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