The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 63

I beg you to forgive me, for you see I meant no harm.”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: beg, forgive, see, mean · To what, where: you, me, harm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, 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, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 beg	nsubj
2	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 beg	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 forgive	mark
5	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 beg	advcl
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 forgive	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 see	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 beg	conj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 meant	nsubj
12	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 see	ccomp
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 harm	det
14	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 meant	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beg	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present	I		you	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	forgive	to-infinitive	I not said here	me		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	see	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	mean	past	I	no harm		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=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.

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