The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 114

"I have come," he said, "to tell you some news which I think you will like to hear.

Who acts: calf, you · What happens: come, say, tell, think, like, hear · To what, where: news, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (calf, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 news	det
15	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 think	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 think	nsubj
18	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 news	acl:relcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 like	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 like	aux
21	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 think	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 hear	mark
23	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 like	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come in a quote	present · perfect	calf			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	calf			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive		some news	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient news=Topic
4	think speech: other in a quote	present	calf	some news		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Attribute clause=Theme
5	like in a quote	future	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	hear not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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