The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 86
Which of all the white-headed boyards shall I choose as counsellor?’
Who acts: I · What happens: choose
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 choose | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 boyards | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 boyards | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boyards | det |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 headed | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 white | punct |
| 7 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boyards | amod |
| 8 | boyards | boyard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 choose | obl |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 choose | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 choose | nsubj |
| 11 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 counsellor | case |
| 13 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 choose | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 choose | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | shall | I | of all headed boyards; as counsellor | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
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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