The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 48

‘I am going away from you,’ she said to her children, in a faint voice; ‘but first, my son, choose which you will have: blessing or property.’

Who acts: I, mother · What happens: go away, say, choose, have · To what, where: children, faint voice, blessing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, mother), 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 going	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 going	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 children	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 children	nmod:poss
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 voice	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 voice	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 voice	det
18	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 voice	amod
19	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 son	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 son	cc
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 son	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 son	punct
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 son	nmod:poss
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 choose	punct
28	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 son	parataxis
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 have	nsubj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 have	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 have	aux
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 choose	ccomp
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 blessing	punct
34	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 property	cc
36	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 blessing	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 son	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go away	present · progressive	I				from you; away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from you=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	mother		mother's children	a faint voice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient clause=Topic
3	choose	infinitive						tree rules
4	have	future		blessing or property				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Patient

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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