--- title: Several times the king said: “Ask me for something, that I may give… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Several times the king said: “Ask me for something, that I may give it you. Who acts: king, that. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/) / 7 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 7 Several times the king said: “Ask me for something, that I may give it you. **Who acts:** king, that · **What happens:** say, ask, give · **To what, where:** king, pleasure, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, that), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3282:5:7 # text = Several times the king said: “Ask me for something, that I may give it you. 1 Several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king | | | | time | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | the king *= king* | | | for something | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 3 | **give** *in a quote* | may | that | pleasure | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Theme | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/8/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/)