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title: I have substituted riddles from the first English collection of ridd… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have substituted riddles from the first English collection of riddles, _The Demandes Joyous_ of Wynkyn de Worde, for the poor ones of the original, which are besides not solved. Who acts: I, Demandes. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIII. Red Ettin., with its dependency tree
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# English Fairy Tales, XXIII. Red Ettin., sentence 4

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I have substituted riddles from the first English collection of riddles, \_The Demandes Joyous\_ of Wynkyn de Worde, for the poor ones of the original, which are besides not solved.

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**Who acts:** I, Demandes · **What happens:** substitute, \_, not solve · **To what, where:** riddles, first English collection, poor ones

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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 (I, Demandes), 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:pg7439:73:4
# text = I have substituted riddles from the first English collection of riddles, _The Demandes Joyous_ of Wynkyn de Worde, for the poor ones of the original, which are besides not solved.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	substituted	substitute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	riddles	riddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
8	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	riddles	riddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Demandes	Demande	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Wynkyn	Wynkyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	Worde	Worde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
33	besides	beside	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	solved	solve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **substitute** | present · perfect | I | riddles |  | the first English collection of riddles |  | for the poor ones of the original | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Theme riddle=Location |
| 2 | **\_** |  | the Demandes |  |  |  |  | of Wynkyn | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **solve** | present · passive |  | the poor ones of the original |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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