The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 31

“Take your father into the next room, and help him to choose everything you think your brothers and sisters would like to have.

Who acts: you, father, brothers · What happens: take, help, choose, think, like, have · To what, where: father, next room, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, 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, father, brothers), 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	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 room	amod
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 help	cc
11	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 help	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 choose	mark
14	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 help	xcomp
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 choose	obj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 think	nsubj
17	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 everything	acl:relcl
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 brothers	nmod:poss
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 like	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sisters	cc
21	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 brothers	conj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 like	aux
23	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 think	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 have	mark
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 like	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take in a quote	imperative	you not said here	your father	the next room	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent father=Theme into room=Destination
2	help in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	father		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	choose in a quote	to-infinitive	father not said here	everything		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
4	think speech: other in a quote	present	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	like in a quote	would	your brothers and sisters			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	your brothers and sisters not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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