The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 26

I beg of you to give me leave to remain silent on this head, for I shall come so frequently that I am afraid that I shall sooner be thought troublesome than be accused of negligence in my duty.”

Who acts: I · What happens: beg, give, leave, remain, come, be · To what, where: me, head, I, duty

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 (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	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	of	of	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 beg	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 beg	advcl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 remain	mark
10	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 leave	xcomp
11	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 remain	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 head	det
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remain	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 come	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 remain	conj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 frequently	advmod
21	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 afraid	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 afraid	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 afraid	cop
25	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 come	advcl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 thought	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 thought	nsubj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 thought	aux
29	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 thought	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 thought	aux:pass
31	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 afraid	advcl
32	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 thought	xcomp
33	than	than	SCONJ	_	35 accused	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 accused	aux:pass
35	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 thought	advcl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 negligence	case
37	negligence	negligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 accused	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 duty	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 duty	nmod:poss
40	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 accused	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beg	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present	I				of you	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	give	to-infinitive	I not said here		me			tree rules
3	leave	infinitive	I not said here					tree rules
4	remain	to-infinitive	I not said here			this head	silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location
5	come	shall	I				frequently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	I				afraid property	tree rules
7	think speech: other	shall · passive		I			soon, troublesome property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	accuse	infinitive · passive				my duty	of negligence	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: of negligence=Attribute

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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