--- title: She had given out that anyone who asked her a riddle which she found… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She had given out that anyone who asked her a riddle which she found herself unable to guess should be her husband, but should she guess it he must forfeit his head. Who acts: Princess, riddle, anyone, husband. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Riddle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/) / 30 # The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 30 She had given out that anyone who asked her a riddle which she found herself unable to guess should be her husband, but should she guess it he must forfeit his head. **Who acts:** Princess, riddle, anyone, husband · **What happens:** give out, ask, find, guess, be, forfeit · **To what, where:** riddle, Princess, husband, head This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, riddle, anyone, husband), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:47:30 # text = She had given out that anyone who asked her a riddle which she found herself unable to guess should be her husband, but should she guess it he must forfeit his head. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 6 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 nsubj _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 riddle riddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 unable unable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 guess guess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 guess guess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 forfeit forfeit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give out** | past · perfect | Princess | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | | a riddle | Princess | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **find** | past | a riddle | Princess | | | | unable *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | | 4 | **guess** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | should | anyone | Princess's husband | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **guess** | should | Princess | riddle | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **forfeit** | must | husband | husband's head | | | | | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent head=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:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/31/) - ↑ back to [The Riddle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/)