The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 19

“I do not ask either of these things for my son,” replied the good King; “but if you will make him the best of princes, I shall indeed be grateful to you.

Who acts: good King, you · What happens: not ask, reply, make, be · To what, where: either, king, 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 (good King, you), 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 ask	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ask	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 ask	advmod
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 replied	ccomp
6	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	5 ask	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 things	case
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 things	det
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 either	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 son	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 things	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct
15	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 King	amod
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 replied	nsubj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 make	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 make	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 make	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 make	aux
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 replied	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 best	det
28	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 make	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 princes	case
30	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 best	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 grateful	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 grateful	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 grateful	aux
34	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	36 grateful	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 grateful	cop
36	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 make	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 you	case
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 grateful	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask in a quote	present · do-support	the good King = king	either			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent either=Recipient
2	reply speech: assert	past	the good King				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	king		good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product
4	is in a quote	shall	the good King = king		you	grateful, indeed property	tree rules

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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