The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 73

You may tell them that you have a desire to try these things, and then you will be able to decide which of the men is to have them.’

Who acts: You · What happens: tell, have, try, be, decide · To what, where: hat, desire, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 have	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 desire	det
9	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 try	mark
11	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 desire	acl
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 things	det
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 try	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 able	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 able	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 able	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 able	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 able	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 able	cop
20	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tell	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 decide	mark
22	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 able	xcomp
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 have	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 men	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 men	det
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	obl
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 have	cop
28	to	to	PART	_	29 have	mark
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 decide	ccomp
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 have	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	may	You		hat			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	have	present	you	a desire				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient
3	try	to-infinitive	you not said here	this things				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	is	future	you			then	able property	tree rules
5	decide	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is not said to happen	present					of the men; have property	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 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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