The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 2
If any suitor for her hand ventured to present himself, she would give him some riddle or conundrum to guess, and if he failed to do so, he was hunted out of the town with scorn and derision.
Who acts: suitor, he · What happens: venture, present, give, guess, fail, not do · To what, where: himself, riddle, him, he, town
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (suitor, he), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 ventured | mark |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 suitor | det |
| 3 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ventured | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suitor | nmod |
| 7 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 present | mark |
| 9 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ventured | xcomp |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 present | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ventured | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 riddle | det |
| 17 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 conundrum | cc |
| 19 | conundrum | conundrum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 riddle | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 guess | mark |
| 21 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 riddle | acl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hunted | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hunted | cc |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 failed | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 failed | nsubj |
| 26 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 hunted | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 failed | xcomp |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 do | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 failed | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 hunted | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 hunted | aux:pass |
| 33 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 give | conj |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 town | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 town | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 town | det |
| 37 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hunted | obl |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 scorn | case |
| 39 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 town | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 derision | cc |
| 41 | derision | derision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 town | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture a condition, not said to happen | past | any suitor for suitor's hand | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | present | to-infinitive | any suitor for suitor's hand not said here | himself = he | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | would | suitor | some riddle or conundrum | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient riddle=Theme | |||
| 4 | guess | to-infinitive | suitor not said here | some riddle or conundrum not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fail a condition, not said to happen | past | he | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | not do | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | hunt out | past · passive | he | the town with scorn and derision | 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 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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