The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 78

'Now, O my friend, name your choice amongst my possessions and you shall have it!'

Who acts: you, my · What happens: name, have, possess · To what, where: choice

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 name	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 name	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	6 friend	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friend	nmod:poss
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 name	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 friend	punct
8	name	name	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 choice	nmod:poss
10	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 name	obj
11	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	13 possessions	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 possessions	nmod:poss
13	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 name	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 have	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 name	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 name	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 name	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	name	imperative	you not said here	your choice	now	of my friend; amongst my possessions	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Theme
2	have	shall	you	choice			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	possess		my				nom possession «act transitive»: poss=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 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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