The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 67

Take these two little boxes and let the two men who claim to be your son choose between them.

Who acts: you, two men · What happens: take, let, claim, be, choose · To what, where: two little boxes, two men, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, two men), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 boxes	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 boxes	nummod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boxes	amod
5	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Take	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 let	cc
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 men	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 men	nummod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 let	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 claim	nsubj
12	claim	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 men	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	16 son	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 son	cop
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 son	nmod:poss
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 claim	ccomp
17	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
18	between	between	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 choose	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	this two little boxes		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	the two men		tree rules
3	claim speech: other	present	the two men			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	to-infinitive		your son		tree rules
5	choose	infinitive	the two men not said here		between boxes = box	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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