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title: Here it is the simpler Sphinx form of the “riddle task,” on which se… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here it is the simpler Sphinx form of the “riddle task,” on which see Köhler in _Jahrb. rom. Who acts: spouse. 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 19

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Here it is the simpler Sphinx form of the “riddle task,” on which see Köhler in \_Jahrb. rom.

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**Who acts:** spouse · **What happens:** be, see, form · **To what, where:** Köhler, \_, riddle task

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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 (spouse), 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:pg7439:73:19
# text = Here it is the simpler Sphinx form of the “riddle task,” on which see Köhler in _Jahrb. rom.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	simpler	simple	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	Sphinx	Sphinx	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
15	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
18	Köhler	Köhler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Jahrb	Jahrb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
23	rom	ROM	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | spouse |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present |  | Köhler |  | \_ |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer köhler=Stimulus |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | the riddle task |  |  |  |  | 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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