English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 56

And last, the third head said: “When does the dead carry the living, riddle me that?”

Who acts: third head, dead · What happens: say, carry, riddle · To what, where: living, third head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third head, dead), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 head	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 head	amod
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 riddle	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 riddle	punct
10	When	when	SCONJ	_	14 carry	mark
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 carry	aux
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dead	det
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 carry	nsubj
14	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 riddle	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 living	det
16	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carry	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carry	punct
18	riddle	riddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 riddle	obj
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 riddle	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 riddle	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 riddle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the third head		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	carry in a quote	present · do-support	the dead	the living	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme
3	riddle in a quote	infinitive		the third head = head	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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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