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title: She gave out publicly that all comers were welcome to try their skil… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She gave out publicly that all comers were welcome to try their skill, and that whoever could solve her riddle should be her husband. Who acts: suitor, comers, whoever. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 3

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She gave out publicly that all comers were welcome to try their skill, and that whoever could solve her riddle should be her husband.

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**Who acts:** suitor, comers, whoever · **What happens:** give out, be, try, solve, riddle · **To what, where:** skill, riddle, husband

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (suitor, comers, whoever), 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:pg7277:51:3
# text = She gave out publicly that all comers were welcome to try their skill, and that whoever could solve her riddle should be her husband.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	publicly	publicly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	comers	comer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	solve	solve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give out** | past | suitor |  |  |  |  | publicly *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | all comers |  |  |  |  | welcome *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | to-infinitive |  | comers's skill |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Eventuality |
| 4 | **solve** | could | whoever | suitor's riddle |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | should |  | suitor's husband |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **riddle** |  | suitor |  |  |  |  |  | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: 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 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.

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