The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 63
Choose which among them you would like for a wife, and I will send an embassy to her father to ask for her hand.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: choose, like, send, ask · To what, where: embassy, father
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 like | obj |
| 3 | among | among | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 which | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | aux |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Choose | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wife | det |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 send | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 send | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 send | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 send | aux |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Choose | conj |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 embassy | det |
| 17 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 send | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 father | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 send | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 ask | mark |
| 22 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 send | advcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ask | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Choose | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | like | would | you | for a wife | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus for wife=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | send | future | I | a embassy | woman's father | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent embassy=Theme to father=Destination | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | I not said here | for woman's hand | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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