More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVII. Princess of Canterbury, sentence 4

_--The "riddle bride wager" is a frequent incident of folk-tales (see my List of Incidents); the sleeping tabu of the latter part is not so common, though it occurs, _e.g._, in the Grimms' _Twelve Princesses_, who wear out their shoes with dancing.

Who acts: bride wager, folk tales, frequent incident, wager, my · What happens: be, see, not be, occur, wear out, list · To what, where: frequent incident, List, Grimms, shoes, Incidents

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVII. Princess of Canterbury. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride wager, folk tales, frequent incident, wager), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 incident	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 wager	punct
3	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wager	det
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wager	punct
5	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bride	compound
6	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wager	compound
7	wager	wager	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 incident	nsubj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wager	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 incident	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 incident	det
11	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 incident	amod
12	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 common	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 tales	case
14	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tales	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 folk	punct
16	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 incident	nmod
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tales	acl
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 List	nmod:poss
20	List	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Incidents	case
22	Incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 List	nmod
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 tabu	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tabu	det
26	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tabu	amod
27	tabu	tabu	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 incident	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 part	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 part	det
30	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 part	amod
31	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tabu	nmod
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 common	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 common	advmod
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 common	advmod
35	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 occurs	punct
37	though	though	SCONJ	_	39 occurs	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 occurs	nsubj
39	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 common	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 e.g.	punct
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 e.g.	punct
42	e.g.	e.g.	ADV	_	39 occurs	obj
43	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 e.g.	punct
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Grimms	punct
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 Grimms	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Grimms	det
47	Grimms	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Plur	39 occurs	obl
48	'	's	PART	_	47 Grimms	case
49	_	_	PUNCT	_	51 Princesses	punct
50	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 Princesses	nummod
51	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 Grimms	conj
52	_	_	PUNCT	_	35 common	punct
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 wear	punct
54	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 wear	nsubj
55	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 common	parataxis
56	out	out	ADP	_	55 wear	compound:prt
57	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 shoes	nmod:poss
58	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 wear	obj
59	with	with	ADP	_	60 dancing	case
60	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 wear	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 common	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the bride wager	a frequent incident and the sleeping tabu of the latter part		of folk tales	tree rules
2	see	infinitive	folk tales not said here	my List of Incidents			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer list=Stimulus
3	not is	present	a frequent incident and the sleeping tabu of the latter part			common property	tree rules
4	occur	present	wager		the Grimms and Twelve Princesses		tree rules
5	wear out	present		Princesses's shoes		with dancing	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
6	list		my	Incidents			nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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