The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 4

If there are any means, I beg you will tell them, and let me come off with honor this time.”

Who acts: I, any, you, me · What happens: be, mean, beg, tell, let, come off · To what, where: arms, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, any, you, me), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 are	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 are	expl
3	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 beg	advcl
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 are	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 are	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 beg	nsubj
8	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 beg	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 let	cc
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 beg	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 come	compound:prt
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 honor	case
20	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl:unmarked
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 beg	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be a condition, not said to happen	present	I not said here			there			tree rules
2	mean	present	any						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	beg speech: request	present	I						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	future	you		arms = arm				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	let	infinitive	I not said here	me					tree rules
6	come off	infinitive	me not said here				time	with honor	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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