Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 165

"Choose whichever you like! whichever you choose, her will I bestow upon you."

Who acts: Scarcely, you · What happens: choose, like, bestow · To what, where: whichever · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, you), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
2	Choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 bestow	advcl
3	whichever	whichever	PRON	PronType=Int	5 like	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
5	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Choose	ccomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
7	whichever	whichever	PRON	PronType=Int	2 Choose	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 choose	nsubj
9	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 whichever	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bestow	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 bestow	aux
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 bestow	nsubj
14	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 bestow	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 bestow	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 bestow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	choose in a quote	infinitive	Scarcely not said here	whichever		tree rules
2	like in a quote	present	you	whichever		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whichever=Theme
3	choose in a quote	present	you			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	bestow in a quote	future	Scarcely		upon you	tree rules

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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