The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 69

I will go alone; I will answer the riddle, and win her in this way.’

Who acts: I · What happens: go, answer, win · To what, where: riddle, daughter, way

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 answer	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 answer	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 answer	aux
8	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 riddle	det
10	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answer	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 win	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 win	cc
13	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 win	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 win	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	future	I			alone property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	future	I	the riddle			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent riddle=Eventuality
3	win	infinitive	I not said here	daughter	this way		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality

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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