The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 42
But choose: will you have my blessing or my property?’
Who acts: you, my · What happens: choose, have, bless · To what, where: blessing
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 choose | cc |
| 2 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 choose | conj |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 8 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 property | cc |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 property | nmod:poss |
| 11 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blessing | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 choose | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | imperative | you not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | future | you | my blessing or my property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bless | my | nom blessing «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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