The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 14

But first, don’t take it amiss that I give you some advice how you shall behave yourself where you are going.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: not take, give, behave, go · To what, where: Sultan, advice, you, yourself

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, 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 (you, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 take	cc
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 take	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 first	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	amiss	amiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 take	obj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 give	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 give	nsubj
11	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 take	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 advice	det
14	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 behave	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 behave	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 behave	aux
18	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 advice	parataxis
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 behave	obj
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 going	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 going	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 behave	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not take	imperative · do-support	you not said here	Sultan		first property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme amiss=Destination
2	give	present	I	some advice	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient advice=Theme
3	behave	shall	you	yourself			tree rules
4	go	present · progressive	you				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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