The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 44

I found it after wandering about for half a day, and never could I have imagined anything so glorious.

Who acts: I · What happens: find, wonder, not imagine · To what, where: castle, anything

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. 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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 wandering	mark
5	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 found	advcl
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 wandering	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	10 day	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wandering	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 imagined	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 imagined	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 imagined	advmod
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 imagined	aux
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 imagined	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 imagined	aux
17	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 found	advcl
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 imagined	obj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 glorious	advmod
20	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 anything	amod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	I	castle			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	I not said here		day	about property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not imagine	could · perfect	I	anything			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=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 Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (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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