The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 85

The King looked at him, and because he pleased him, he said: “You can ask for three things, none of them living, and those you may take with you into the castle.”

Who acts: King, You, those · What happens: look, say, ask, live, take · To what, where: castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, You, those), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 pleased	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pleased	nsubj
10	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pleased	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pleased	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 ask	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 ask	punct
17	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 ask	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 ask	aux
19	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 things	case
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 things	nummod
22	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ask	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 none	punct
24	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	22 things	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 none	nmod
27	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 none	acl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 take	cc
30	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 take	nsubj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 take	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 take	aux
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ask	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 you	case
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 take	obl
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 castle	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 castle	det
38	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 ask	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	the King		at Many	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask in a quote	can	You		for three things	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	live in a quote	gerund				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take in a quote	may	those	the castle	with you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into castle=Destination

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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