The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 197
‘Choose, then,’ said the Duke, ‘whichever you prefer.’
Who acts: Duke, you · What happens: choose, say, prefer · To what, where: whichever · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke, 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 | _ | 2 Choose | punct |
| 2 | Choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Choose | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Choose | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Choose | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Choose | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Duke | det |
| 9 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whichever | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 whichever | punct |
| 12 | whichever | whichever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Duke | appos |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 prefer | nsubj |
| 14 | prefer | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 whichever | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | infinitive | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Duke | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | prefer | present | you | whichever not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whichever=Stimulus |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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