The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 27

I ask nothing but your friendship, and your consent to my marriage with your youngest son; we shall still have three kingdoms left for ourselves.”

Who acts: I, we, your, my · What happens: ask, have, leave, consent, marry · To what, where: nothing, three kingdoms

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we, your, my), 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	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 ask	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 friendship	cc
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friendship	nmod:poss
6	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nothing	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 consent	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 consent	cc
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 consent	nmod:poss
10	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 marriage	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 marriage	nmod:poss
13	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 consent	nmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 son	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 son	nmod:poss
16	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 son	amod
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 marriage	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 have	advmod
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	parataxis
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 kingdoms	nummod
24	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	obj
25	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 kingdoms	acl
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 ourselves	case
27	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 left	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	I	nothing		your consent to my marriage with your youngest son obl	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient
2	have	shall	we	three kingdoms	still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient
3	leave	participle		three kingdoms not said here		for ourselves	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for ourselves=Recipient
4	consent		your			to my marriage with your youngest son	nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl
5	marry		my			with your youngest son	nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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