The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 63
The riddle she asks is, ‘What did the rose do to the cypress?’
Who acts: daughter, riddle · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: riddle
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, riddle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 riddle | det |
| 2 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 riddle | acl:relcl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 8 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 do | obj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rose | det |
| 11 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 cypress | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cypress | det |
| 15 | cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | daughter | the riddle not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent riddle=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present · do-support | the riddle | to the cypress; do property | tree rules |
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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