The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 83
“I ask for no more than I am able to carry with me,” said the Prince.
Who acts: I, Prince · What happens: ask, be, carry, say · 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 (I, 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 | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 able | mark |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 able | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 able | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 able | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | cop |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ask | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 carry | mark |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | I | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | with me | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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