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title: 519), when the hero or heroine wins a spouse by guessing a riddle or… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 519), when the hero or heroine wins a spouse by guessing a riddle or riddles. Who acts: hero. 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 18

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519), when the hero or heroine wins a spouse by guessing a riddle or riddles.

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**Who acts:** hero · **What happens:** win, guess · **To what, where:** spouse, riddle

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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 (hero), 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:pg7439:73:18
# text = 519), when the hero or heroine wins a spouse by guessing a riddle or riddles.
1	519	519	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	spouse	spouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	guessing	guess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	riddles	riddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present | the hero or heroine | a spouse |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spouse=Eventuality |
| 2 | **guess** | gerund | the hero or heroine *not said here* | a riddle or riddles |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Theme |

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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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