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title: _--The "riddle bride wager" is a frequent incident of folk-tales (se… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The "riddle bride wager" is a frequent incident of folk-tales (see my List of Incidents); the sleeping tabu of the latter part is not so common, though it occurs, _e.g._, in the Grimms' _Twelve Princesses_, who wear out their shoes with dancing. Who acts: bride wager, folk tales, frequent inciden
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVII. Princess of Canterbury, sentence 4

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\_--The "riddle bride wager" is a frequent incident of folk-tales (see my List of Incidents); the sleeping tabu of the latter part is not so common, though it occurs, \_e.g.\_, in the Grimms' \_Twelve Princesses\_, who wear out their shoes with dancing.

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**Who acts:** bride wager, folk tales, frequent incident, wager, my · **What happens:** be, see, not be, occur, wear out, list · **To what, where:** frequent incident, List, Grimms, shoes, Incidents

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVII. Princess of Canterbury. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride wager, folk tales, frequent incident, wager), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:80:4
# text = _--The "riddle bride wager" is a frequent incident of folk-tales (see my List of Incidents); the sleeping tabu of the latter part is not so common, though it occurs, _e.g._, in the Grimms' _Twelve Princesses_, who wear out their shoes with dancing.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wager	wager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	List	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	tabu	tabu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	e.g.	e.g.	ADV	FW	_	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Grimms	Grimm	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	'	's	PART	POS	_	47	case	_	_
49	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	nummod	_	_
51	Princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	_
55	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
56	out	out	ADP	RP	_	55	compound:prt	_	_
57	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	_
59	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the bride wager | a frequent incident and the sleeping tabu of the latter part |  |  |  | of folk tales | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | folk tales *not said here* | my List of Incidents |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer list=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | a frequent incident and the sleeping tabu of the latter part |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **occur** | present | wager |  |  | the Grimms and Twelve Princesses |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wear out** | present |  | Princesses's shoes |  |  |  | with dancing | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
| 6 | **list** |  | my | Incidents |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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