The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 61

She says to them: ‘I know a riddle; and I will marry anyone who answers it, and will bestow on him all my possessions.

Who acts: daughter, I, my · What happens: say, know, marry, answer, bestow, possess · To what, where: quarters, riddle, anyone, possessions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, I, my), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 riddle	det
10	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 marry	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 marry	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 marry	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 marry	aux
15	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	parataxis
16	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 marry	obj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 answers	nsubj
18	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 anyone	acl:relcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 answers	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bestow	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bestow	cc
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bestow	aux
23	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 marry	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bestow	obl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 possessions	det:predet
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 possessions	nmod:poss
28	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bestow	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	daughter		quarters = quarter		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
2	know	present	I	a riddle			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer riddle=Stimulus
3	marry	future	I	anyone			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient
4	answer speech: assert	present		riddle			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	bestow	future	I not said here	my possessions		on Prince	tree rules
6	possess		my				nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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