English Fairy Tales, XXIII. Red Ettin., sentence 18
519), when the hero or heroine wins a spouse by guessing a riddle or riddles.
Who acts: hero · What happens: win, guess · To what, where: spouse, riddle
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 (hero), 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 | 519 | 519 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 519 | punct |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wins | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 wins | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hero | det |
| 6 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wins | nsubj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 heroine | cc |
| 8 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hero | conj |
| 9 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 519 | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 spouse | det |
| 11 | spouse | spouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wins | obj |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 guessing | mark |
| 13 | guessing | guess | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 wins | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 riddle | det |
| 15 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 guessing | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 riddles | cc |
| 17 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 riddle | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 519 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | the hero or heroine | a spouse | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spouse=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | guess | gerund | the hero or heroine not said here | a riddle or riddles | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=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: «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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