The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 124

Choose the one which pleases you best, but be careful not to open it till you have set it in the place where you wish it to remain.'

Who acts: you, one · What happens: choose, please, be, not open, set, wish · To what, where: one, you, reward, place

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one), 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Choose	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 pleases	nsubj
5	pleases	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 one	acl:relcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 pleases	obj
7	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 pleases	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 careful	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 careful	cc
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 careful	cop
11	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Choose	parataxis
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 open	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 open	mark
14	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 careful	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 open	obj
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 set	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 set	nsubj:pass
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 set	aux
19	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 open	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 set	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 place	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 place	det
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 wish	advmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 wish	nsubj
26	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 place	acl:relcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wish	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 remain	mark
29	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wish	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Choose	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Choose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose	imperative	you not said here	the one			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	please	present	the one	you		well property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
3	is	infinitive				careful property	tree rules
4	not open	to-infinitive		reward			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	set	present · perfect · passive		you	the place		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme it=Destination
6	wish	present	you	reward			tree rules
7	remain not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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