The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 70

“I choose,” answered he, “the chest which stands at the foot of your bed; whatever lies on the top of the bed, and whatever is under the side of the cave.”

Who acts: I, chest, whatever · What happens: choose, answer, stand, lie, be · To what, where: man, foot, top, side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, chest, whatever), 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	_	3 choose	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 choose	nsubj
3	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 choose	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 choose	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 choose	parataxis
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chest	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 chest	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chest	det
11	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	parataxis
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 stands	nsubj
13	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 chest	acl:relcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 foot	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 foot	det
16	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stands	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 bed	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bed	nmod:poss
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 foot	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 lies	punct
21	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 lies	nsubj
22	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 choose	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 top	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 top	det
25	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lies	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 bed	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bed	det
28	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 top	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 side	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 side	cc
31	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 side	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 side	cop
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 side	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 side	det
35	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lies	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 cave	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 cave	det
38	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 side	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 choose	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 choose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose in a quote	present	I				tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past		man			tree rules
3	stand in a quote	present	the chest		the foot of your bed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
4	lie in a quote	present	whatever		the top of the bed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location
5	is in a quote	present	whatever		the side	of the cave	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: «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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