The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 144

‘Choose one of these twelve horses; you can have which you like.’

Who acts: you · What happens: choose, have, like · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
2	Choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Choose	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 horses	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 horses	det
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 horses	nummod
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Choose	conj
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 like	obj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 like	nsubj
14	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 have	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	choose	imperative	you not said here	one of this twelve horses	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	have	can	you		tree rules
3	like	present	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 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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