The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 101

But what revolts me is the idea of marrying a woman without knowing anything at all about her.

Who acts: idea · What happens: revolt, be, marry, know · To what, where: me, idea, woman, anything

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 revolts	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 revolts	nsubj
3	revolts	revolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 idea	csubj
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 revolts	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 idea	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 idea	det
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 marrying	mark
9	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 idea	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 woman	det
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marrying	obj
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 knowing	mark
13	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 marrying	advcl
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 knowing	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 her	case
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 her	advmod
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 anything	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 idea	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	revolt	present	the idea	me		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
2	is a	present		the idea		tree rules
3	marry	gerund	the idea not said here	a woman		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient
4	know	gerund	the idea not said here	anything	at woman	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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