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title: 'Will you choose which of your sisters shall go with you to cut your… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Will you choose which of your sisters shall go with you to cut your wood and carry your water?' Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 17

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'Will you choose which of your sisters shall go with you to cut your wood and carry your water?'

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** choose, go, cut, carry · **To what, where:** wood, water

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. 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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:21:17
# text = 'Will you choose which of your sisters shall go with you to cut your wood and carry your water?'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | shall |  |  |  |  |  | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **cut** | to-infinitive |  | your wood |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product |
| 4 | **carry** | infinitive |  | your water |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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