The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 13

You have only to ask me for anything you want and I promise that I will give it to you.”

Who acts: You, I · What happens: ask, want, promise, give · To what, where: me, kindness, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 ask	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 ask	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 ask	mark
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ask	iobj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 anything	case
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 ask	obl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 want	nsubj
10	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 anything	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 promise	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 promise	nsubj
13	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 want	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 give	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 promise	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 give	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 give	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	You		me	for anything	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	want	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	promise speech: promise	present	I				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	future	I	kindness	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient

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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