The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 45

He will then cause all kinds of fish to come before you, and you shall choose between them.

Who acts: fish, you · What happens: cause, come, choose · To what, where: kinds

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 (fish, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cause	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	aux
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 cause	advmod
4	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 kinds	det
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cause	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fish	case
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kinds	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 come	mark
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cause	advcl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 come	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 choose	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 choose	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 choose	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 choose	aux
17	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cause	conj
18	between	between	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 choose	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cause	future	fish	all kinds of fish	then		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition kind=Patient
2	come	to-infinitive	fish not said here		before you		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before you=Location
3	choose	shall	you			between kinds = kind	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 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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