The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 30

She had given out that anyone who asked her a riddle which she found herself unable to guess should be her husband, but should she guess it he must forfeit his head.

Who acts: Princess, riddle, anyone, husband · What happens: give out, ask, find, guess, be, forfeit · To what, where: riddle, Princess, husband, head

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, riddle, anyone, husband), 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	3 given	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 given	compound:prt
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 husband	mark
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 husband	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 anyone	acl:relcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 riddle	det
11	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obj
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 found	nsubj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 riddle	acl:relcl
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 found	obj
16	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 found	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 guess	mark
18	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 unable	xcomp
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 husband	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 husband	cop
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 husband	nmod:poss
22	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 guess	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 guess	cc
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 guess	aux
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 guess	nsubj
27	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 given	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 guess	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 forfeit	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 forfeit	aux
31	forfeit	forfeit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 guess	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 forfeit	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give out	past · perfect	Princess				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past		a riddle	Princess		tree rules
3	find	past	a riddle	Princess		unable property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
4	guess	to-infinitive	Princess not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	should	anyone	Princess's husband			tree rules
6	guess	should	Princess	riddle			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	forfeit	must	husband	husband's head			vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent head=Theme

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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