The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 115

Therefore tell us which you like best, and we will buy her for you.'

Who acts: you, we · What happens: tell, like, buy · To what, where: us, best, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 like	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
6	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	ccomp
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 like	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 buy	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 buy	cc
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 buy	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 buy	aux
12	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 buy	iobj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 buy	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		us	therefore property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
2	like	present	you	best			tree rules
3	buy	future	we		wife	for you	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for you=Beneficiary

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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