The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 73

“Oh! you must tell me how to do it,” said the Prince, “for I have never yet been underground, and even if I knew the way I do not know how much I am to demand.”

Who acts: you, Prince · What happens: tell, do, say, have, not be, know · To what, where: me, thing, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Prince), 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	_	6 tell	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 tell	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 do	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Prince	det
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 knew	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 knew	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 have	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 knew	advcl
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 underground	advmod
23	yet	yet	ADV	_	25 underground	advmod
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 underground	cop
25	underground	underground	ADV	_	21 have	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 knew	cc
28	even	even	ADV	_	31 knew	advmod
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 knew	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 knew	nsubj
31	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 way	det
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 knew	obj
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 know	nsubj
35	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 know	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 know	advmod
37	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 way	acl:relcl
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	39 much	advmod
39	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 know	obj
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 much	nsubj
41	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 much	cop
42	to	to	PART	_	43 demand	mark
43	demand	demand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 much	acl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	must	you		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		thing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	the Prince					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	present	the Prince = prince					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not is in a quote	participle				yet	underground property	tree rules
6	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the Prince = prince	the way				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
7	not know in a quote	present · do-support	the Prince = prince	the way not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
8	is in a quote	present	the Prince = prince				much property	tree rules
9	demand speech: request in a quote	to-infinitive						vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: 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 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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