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title: Riddles generally come in the form of the “riddle-bride-wager” (_cf. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Riddles generally come in the form of the “riddle-bride-wager” (_cf. Who acts: Riddles. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIII. Red Ettin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXIII. Red Ettin., sentence 16

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Riddles generally come in the form of the “riddle-bride-wager” (\_cf.

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**Who acts:** Riddles · **What happens:** come, form · **To what, where:** form, bride wager

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIII. Red Ettin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Riddles), 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:pg7439:73:16
# text = Riddles generally come in the form of the “riddle-bride-wager” (_cf.
1	Riddles	riddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	wager	wager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Riddles |  |  | the form of the bride wager and cf |  | generally *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location |
| 2 | **form** |  |  | the bride wager and cf |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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