The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 7

I ask no more than the sum it has cost me to make her such as she is."

Who acts: I, sum, price · What happens: ask, cost, make, be · To what, where: more, sum, me, such

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sum, price), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 ask	nsubj
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 ask	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 sum	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sum	det
7	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 more	obl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cost	nsubj:pass
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cost	aux
10	cost	cost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sum	acl:relcl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 cost	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	advcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 such	nmod:poss
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	13 make	obj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 is	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 is	nsubj
18	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 make	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	I	more		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Recipient
2	cost	present · perfect · passive	the sum not said here	sum	me	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary i=Value
3	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	price's such		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset such=Product
4	be	present	price			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (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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