Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 61

So they brought to him all the fair young damsels of the land that he might choose one to be his own true bride.

Who acts: head, land · What happens: bring, choose, be · To what, where: fair young damsels, puss, one, own true bride

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, land), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 damsels	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 damsels	det
8	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 damsels	amod
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 damsels	amod
10	damsels	damsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brought	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 land	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 land	det
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 damsels	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 choose	nsubj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 choose	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 choose	aux
17	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 land	acl:relcl
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 choose	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	24 bride	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 bride	cop
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 bride	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bride	amod
23	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bride	amod
24	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 choose	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	bring	past	head	all fair young damsels of the land	puss	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent damsel=Theme to he=Destination
2	choose	might	the land	one		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive	the land not said here	puss's own true bride		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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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