The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 17

'Will you choose which of your sisters shall go with you to cut your wood and carry your water?'

Who acts: you · What happens: choose, go, cut, carry · To what, where: wood, water

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	4 choose	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 choose	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 choose	nsubj
4	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 go	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sisters	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sisters	nmod:poss
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 go	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 choose	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 go	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cut	mark
14	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	advcl
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wood	nmod:poss
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cut	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 carry	cc
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cut	conj
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 water	nmod:poss
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carry	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 choose	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 choose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	choose	future	you			tree rules
2	go	shall			with you	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary
3	cut	to-infinitive		your wood		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product
4	carry	infinitive		your water		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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