--- title: “I ask for no more than I am able to carry with me,” said the Prince. — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “I ask for no more than I am able to carry with me,” said the Prince. Who acts: I, Prince. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1, 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/pg503/17/83/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Master-maid, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/17/) / 83 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:17:83 # text = “I ask for no more than I am able to carry with me,” said the Prince. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 4 for for SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 5 no no ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 7 than than SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/17/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/17/84/) - ↑ back to [The Master-maid, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/17/)