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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 26

There's a collection there of the portraits of all the princesses in the world; look at them and choose for yourself; whichever pleases you, to her send a proposal of marriage."

Who acts: collection, you, whichever, marriage · What happens: be, look, choose, please, send, portray · To what, where: you, proposal, princesses

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (collection, you, whichever, marriage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

expladvcldetnsubjadvmodcasedetoblcasedet:predetdetnmodcasedetnmodpunctcaseoblccconjcaseoblpunctnsubjparataxisobjpunctcasenmod:possparataxisdetobjcasenmodpunctpunctrootTherePRON'sVERBaDETcollectionNOUNthereADVofADPtheDETportraitsNOUNofADPallDETtheDETprincessesNOUNinADPtheDETworldNOUN;PUNCTlookVERBatADPthemPRONandCCONJchooseVERBforADPyourselfPRON;PUNCTwhicheverNOUNpleasesVERByouPRON,PUNCTtoADPherPRONsendVERBaDETproposalNOUNofADPmarriageNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 'sexpl
2'sbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 lookadvcl
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 collectiondet
4collectioncollectionNOUNNumber=Sing2 'snsubj
5therethereADVPronType=Dem2 'sadvmod
6ofofADP_8 portraitscase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 portraitsdet
8portraitsportraitNOUNNumber=Plur5 thereobl
9ofofADP_12 princessescase
10allallDETPronType=Tot12 princessesdet:predet
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 princessesdet
12princessesprincessNOUNNumber=Plur8 portraitsnmod
13ininADP_15 worldcase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 worlddet
15worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing12 princessesnmod
16;;PUNCT_17 lookpunct
17looklookVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
18atatADP_19 themcase
19themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs17 lookobl
20andandCCONJ_21 choosecc
21choosechooseVERBVerbForm=Inf17 lookconj
22forforADP_23 yourselfcase
23yourselfyourselfPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes21 chooseobl
24;;PUNCT_26 pleasespunct
25whicheverwhicheverNOUNNumber=Sing26 pleasesnsubj
26pleasespleaseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 lookparataxis
27youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs26 pleasesobj
28,,PUNCT_31 sendpunct
29totoADP_31 sendcase
30herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 sendnmod:poss
31sendsendVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin17 lookparataxis
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 proposaldet
33proposalproposalNOUNNumber=Sing31 sendobj
34ofofADP_35 marriagecase
35marriagemarriageNOUNNumber=Sing33 proposalnmod
36..PUNCT_31 sendpunct
37""PUNCT_31 sendpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepresenta collectionthere; therevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2lookimperativeyou not said hereat princesses = princessvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
3chooseinfinitiveyou not said herefor yourselfvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for yourself=Beneficiary
4pleasepresentwhicheveryouvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
5sendinfinitivea proposal of marriagevn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme
6portrayall princesses in the worldnom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient
7proposemarriagenom proposal «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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.

Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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