The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 31
She claimed three days in which to think over the riddles, but she was so very clever that she invariably guessed them in a much shorter time.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: claim, think, be, guess · To what, where: riddles, robbers
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), 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 claimed | nsubj |
| 2 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 claimed | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 claimed | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 think | mark |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 claimed | advcl |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 riddles | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 riddles | det |
| 11 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 think | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 clever | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 clever | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 clever | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 clever | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 clever | advmod |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 clever | advmod |
| 18 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 claimed | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 guessed | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 guessed | nsubj |
| 21 | invariably | invariably | ADV | _ | 22 guessed | advmod |
| 22 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 clever | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 guessed | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 27 shorter | advmod |
| 27 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 time | amod |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 guessed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 claimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | past | Princess | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | the riddles | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Princess | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | guess | past | Princess | robbers = robber | time | invariably property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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