The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 4
He desired of her one of them in marriage, leaving to her choice which of the two she would bestow on him.
Who acts: One, lady · What happens: desire, leave, bestow · To what, where: marriage, choice
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, lady), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 desired | nsubj |
| 2 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 one | nmod:poss |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 desired | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 marriage | case |
| 9 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 desired | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaving | punct |
| 11 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 desired | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 choice | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 choice | nmod:poss |
| 14 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaving | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 bestow | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 two | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 two | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 bestow | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bestow | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 bestow | aux |
| 21 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 choice | acl:relcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bestow | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | One | marriage | of lady's one of beauties | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | One not said here | lady's choice | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to choice=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | bestow | would | lady | lady's choice | of the two; on One | tree rules |
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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