The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 28

‘No, child,’ answered the old woman, ‘only to you it is decreed that you must choose between the two.

Who acts: child, you · What happens: answer, decree, choose · To what, where: old woman, you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (child, 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	_	4 child	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 child	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 decreed	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 decreed	punct
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 you	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 decreed	nsubj:pass
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 decreed	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 decreed	aux:pass
18	decreed	decree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 answered	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 choose	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 choose	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 choose	aux
22	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 decreed	advcl
23	between	between	ADP	_	25 two	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 two	det
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 choose	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	child		the old woman		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality
2	decree	present · passive		you			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result
3	choose	must	you			between the two	vn get-13.5.1 «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 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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