The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 12

I am thankful to say I do not need it, for I belong to a beautiful lady who is very rich and gives me everything I want."

Who acts: I, beautiful lady · What happens: be, say, not need, belong, give, want · To what, where: money, everything, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, beautiful lady), 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	3 thankful	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thankful	cop
3	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thankful	csubj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 need	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 need	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 need	advmod
9	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 need	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 belong	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 belong	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 belong	nsubj
14	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 need	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 lady	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lady	det
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lady	amod
18	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 belong	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 rich	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 rich	cop
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 rich	advmod
22	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lady	acl:relcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gives	cc
24	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 rich	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 gives	iobj
26	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 gives	obj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 want	nsubj
28	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 everything	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thankful	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thankful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			thankful property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not need	present · do-support	I	money			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	belong	present	I			to a beautiful lady	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	a beautiful lady			rich property	tree rules
6	give	present	a beautiful lady not said here	everything	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient everything=Theme
7	want	present	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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