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title: She says to them: ‘I know a riddle; and I will marry anyone who answ… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She says to them: ‘I know a riddle; and I will marry anyone who answers it, and will bestow on him all my possessions. Who acts: daughter, I, my. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 61

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She says to them: ‘I know a riddle; and I will marry anyone who answers it, and will bestow on him all my possessions.

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**Who acts:** daughter, I, my · **What happens:** say, know, marry, answer, bestow, possess · **To what, where:** quarters, riddle, anyone, possessions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, I, my), 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:pg3282:1:61
# text = She says to them: ‘I know a riddle; and I will marry anyone who answers it, and will bestow on him all my possessions.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
16	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | daughter |  | quarters *= quarter* |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 2 | **know** | present | I | a riddle |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer riddle=Stimulus |
| 3 | **marry** | future | I | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present |  | riddle |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 5 | **bestow** | future | I *not said here* | my possessions |  |  |  | on Prince | tree rules |
| 6 | **possess** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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