--- title: If any suitor for her hand ventured to present himself, she would gi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: If any suitor for her hand ventured to present himself, she would give him some riddle or conundrum to guess, and if he failed to do so, he was hunted out of the town with scorn and derision. Who acts: suitor, he. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (suitor, he), 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:pg7277:51:2 # text = If any suitor for her hand ventured to present himself, she would give him some riddle or conundrum to guess, and if he failed to do so, he was hunted out of the town with scorn and derision. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 suitor suitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 ventured venture VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 present present VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 riddle riddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 conundrum conundrum NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 guess guess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 hunted hunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 34 out out ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 scorn scorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 derision derision NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **venture** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | any suitor for suitor's hand | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **present** | to-infinitive | any suitor for suitor's hand *not said here* | himself *= he* | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 3 | **give** | would | suitor | some riddle or conundrum | him *= he* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient riddle=Theme | | 4 | **guess** | to-infinitive | suitor *not said here* | some riddle or conundrum *not said here* | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | he | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **not** **do** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **hunt out** | past · passive | | he | | the town with scorn and derision | | | tree rules | 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/51/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/51/3/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Clever Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/51/)