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title: I ask nothing but your friendship, and your consent to my marriage w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 27

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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.”

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

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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.

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**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:pg503:25:27
# text = 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.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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