The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 23

But beforehand, I desire you to forgive me, and consider that you yourself have reduced me to this extremity.”

Who acts: I · What happens: desire, forgive, consider, reduce · To what, where: you, me

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 desire	cc
2	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	_	5 desire	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 desire	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 desire	nsubj
5	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 desire	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 forgive	mark
8	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 desire	xcomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 forgive	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 consider	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 consider	cc
12	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 forgive	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 reduced	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 reduced	nsubj:pass
15	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 you	nmod
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 reduced	aux
17	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 consider	advcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 reduced	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 extremity	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 extremity	det
21	extremity	extremity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reduced	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 desire	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 desire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	desire	present	I	you	beforehand property	tree rules
2	forgive not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	me		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	consider	infinitive	I not said here			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
4	reduce	present · perfect · passive		you	to this extremity result	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: subject=Patient i=Extent to extremity=Result

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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