The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 39

Then he will bring forward a whole troop of women, and cause them to pass before you, in order that you may pick out the one that you take for his daughter.

Who acts: father, women, you · What happens: bring forward, cause, pass, pick out, take · To what, where: whole troop, women, order, one

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, women, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bring	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bring	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	forward	forward	ADV	_	4 bring	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 troop	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 troop	amod
8	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 women	case
10	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 troop	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cause	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cause	cc
13	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cause	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pass	mark
16	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cause	xcomp
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 pass	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 order	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 order	case
21	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pass	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 pick	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 pick	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 pick	aux
25	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 order	acl
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 pick	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pick	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 take	obj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 take	nsubj
31	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 one	acl:relcl
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 daughter	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 daughter	nmod:poss
34	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring forward	future	father	a whole troop of women		then	forward property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent troop=Theme
2	cause	infinitive		women = woman				tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive	women = woman not said here		order	before you		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before you=Location
4	pick out	may	you	the one				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	take	present	you	the one			for father's daughter	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Theme for daughter=Beneficiary

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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