The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 111

He desired of her one of them in marriage, leaving to her the choice which of the two she would bestow upon him.

Who acts: One, girl · What happens: desire, leave, bestow · To what, where: marriage, choice, girl

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, girl), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 desired	nsubj
2	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 one	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 one	nmod:poss
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 desired	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 marriage	case
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 desired	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 leaving	punct
11	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 desired	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 leaving	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 choice	det
15	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaving	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 bestow	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 two	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 two	det
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 bestow	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bestow	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bestow	aux
22	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 choice	acl:relcl
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bestow	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	desire	past	One			marriage	of girl's one of beauties	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	leave	gerund	One not said here	the choice	girl			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent choice=Theme to she=Recipient
3	bestow	would	girl	the choice			of the two; upon One	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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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