Assertion: sphinx | /r/CapableOf | ask riddle
Facets:
value: in myth
type: LOCATION
value: usually
type: DEGREE
value: to anyone
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: once more
type: TEMPORAL
value: before devouring her victim
type: TEMPORAL
value: to allow
type: PURPOSE
value: to travellers
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: The Sphinx is said to have guarded the entrance to the Greek city of Thebes, asking a riddle to travellers to allow them passage.
text: Following up on this, in myth, the Sphinx asks one riddle before devouring her victim.
text: The Sphinx asked the riddle once more.
text: The Sphinx used to sit outside of Thebes, asking the same riddle to anyone who passed by.
text: In the Amber book Trumps of Doom Merlin briefly encounters a sphinx that asks him a riddle.
text: Merlin briefly encounters a sphinx that asks him a riddle.
text: well, there are several versions, but the important thing to keep in mind is that the Sphinx asked a riddle and ate people who failed to answer it correctly.
text: Usually, in myths, a sphinx asks riddles and if a person answers incorrect, he is eaten.
text: Ever since, it's been a tradition that all sphinxes ask riddles.
text: The more general trope for sphinxes that ask riddles is Riddling Sphinx.
text: The more general trope for sphinxes that ask riddles is Riddling Sphinx.