The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 4
Which should she choose, the yellow or the blue, the red or the green, the gold or the silver?
What happens: choose · To what, where: yellow
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 choose | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 choose | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 choose | nsubj |
| 4 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 yellow | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 yellow | det |
| 7 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 choose | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 blue | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blue | det |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 yellow | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 red | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 red | det |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 yellow | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 green | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 green | det |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 red | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gold | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gold | det |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yellow | conj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 silver | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 silver | det |
| 22 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gold | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | should | the yellow and the gold or the silver | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yellow=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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