English Fairy Tales, XXIII. Red Ettin., sentence 16
Riddles generally come in the form of the “riddle-bride-wager” (_cf.
Who acts: Riddles · What happens: come, form · To what, where: form, bride wager
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIII. 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 (Riddles), 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 | Riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 form | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 form | det |
| 6 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wager | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wager | det |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wager | punct |
| 10 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bride | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 riddle | punct |
| 12 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wager | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 wager | punct |
| 14 | wager | wager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 form | nmod |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wager | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 cf | punct |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 cf | punct |
| 18 | cf | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wager | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Riddles | the form of the bride wager and cf | generally property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location | |||
| 2 | form | the bride wager and cf | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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