The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 17

Out of these you must pick out the three described to you by my father.

Who acts: you · What happens: pick out, describe · To what, where: three, these, you

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. 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	Out	out	ADP	_	3 these	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 these	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 pick	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 pick	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pick	aux
6	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 pick	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 three	det
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 pick	obj
10	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 three	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 described	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 father	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 described	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick out	must	you	the three		these			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient
2	describe	participle			you			by my father	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to you=be'

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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