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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 28

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Consider then, I conjure you, that it is not I, but the Sultan my father, who indiscreetly, or at least I think so, begs of you a pavilion large enough to shelter him, his Court, and army from the violence of the weather, and which a man may carry in his hand.

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**Who acts:** you, I, favor, Sultan father, man · **What happens:** consider, conjure, not be, think, beg, shelter · **To what, where:** you, I, least, pavilion, Prince, hand

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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 (you, I, favor, Sultan father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:52:28
# text = Consider then, I conjure you, that it is not I, but the Sultan my father, who indiscreetly, or at least I think so, begs of you a pavilion large enough to shelter him, his Court, and army from the violence of the weather, and which a man may carry in his hand.
1	Consider	consider	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	conjure	conjure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
21	indiscreetly	indiscreetly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	obl	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	begs	beg	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pavilion	pavilion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
36	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	shelter	shelter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
54	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	obj	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
57	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **conjure** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Result |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | favor | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | my Sultan father |  |  | least |  | indiscreetly *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | present |  | a pavilion and Prince's Court |  |  |  | of you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pavilion=Recipient |
| 6 | **shelter** | to-infinitive |  | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 7 | **carry** | may | a man |  |  | Prince's hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Value in hand=Location |

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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.

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**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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