The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 42

‘Come along then,’ said the king, ‘choose whom you will.’

What happens: come along, say, choose · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	along	along	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Come	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 choose	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 choose	punct
12	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 choose	obj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 will	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 whom	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 choose	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 choose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come along	infinitive		then	along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the king			tree rules
3	choose	infinitive				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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