English Fairy Tales, XXIII. Red Ettin., sentence 19
Here it is the simpler Sphinx form of the “riddle task,” on which see Köhler in _Jahrb. rom.
Who acts: spouse · What happens: be, see, form · To what, where: Köhler, _, riddle task
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 (spouse), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 form | det |
| 5 | simpler | simple | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 form | amod |
| 6 | Sphinx | Sphinx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 form | compound |
| 7 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 task | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 task | det |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 task | punct |
| 11 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 task | compound |
| 12 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 form | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 15 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | advcl |
| 18 | Köhler | Köhler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 _ | case |
| 20 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obl |
| 21 | Jahrb | Jahrb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 _ | flat |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 23 | rom | ROM | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | spouse | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present | Köhler | _ | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer köhler=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | form | the riddle task | 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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