The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 3

She gave out publicly that all comers were welcome to try their skill, and that whoever could solve her riddle should be her husband.

Who acts: suitor, comers, whoever · What happens: give out, be, try, solve, riddle · To what, where: skill, riddle, husband

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, comers, whoever), 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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
4	publicly	publicly	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 welcome	mark
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 comers	det
7	comers	comer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 welcome	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 welcome	cop
9	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gave	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 try	mark
11	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 welcome	csubj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 skill	nmod:poss
13	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 try	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 solve	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 solve	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 solve	mark
17	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 solve	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 solve	aux
19	solve	solve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	parataxis
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 riddle	nmod:poss
21	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 solve	obj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 husband	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 husband	cop
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 husband	nmod:poss
25	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 solve	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give out	past	suitor		publicly property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	all comers		welcome property	tree rules
3	try	to-infinitive		comers's skill		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Eventuality
4	solve	could	whoever	suitor's riddle		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Topic
5	is a	should		suitor's husband		tree rules
6	riddle		suitor			nom riddle «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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