The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 75

“Then someone will come out who will sparkle with fire; you shall tell him your errand, and when he asks you how much you want to have you are to say: ‘As much as I can carry.’”

Who acts: someone, you, Prince, much · What happens: come out, sparkle, tell, ask, want, have · To what, where: errand, Prince, you, much · 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 (someone, you, Prince, much), 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	_	5 come	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 come	advmod
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 come	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sparkle	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sparkle	aux
9	sparkle	sparkle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 fire	case
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sparkle	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 errand	nmod:poss
18	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asks	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asks	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 asks	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asks	nsubj
23	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	parataxis
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 asks	obj
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 want	obj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 want	nsubj
28	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 asks	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 have	mark
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 want	xcomp
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 have	obj
32	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 have	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 say	mark
34	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 are	advcl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 much	punct
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 much	punct
37	As	as	ADV	_	38 much	advmod
38	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 say	ccomp
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 carry	mark
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 carry	nsubj
41	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 carry	aux
42	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 much	acl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come out in a quote	future	someone			then	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	sparkle in a quote	future					with fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fire=Theme
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	shall	you	your errand	Prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient errand=Topic
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	Prince		you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
5	want in a quote	present	you	much				tree rules
6	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	much not said here	you				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
7	be in a quote	present	much not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	much not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	carry in a quote	can	Prince					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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