The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 47

I thought you had something really interesting to tell me instead of raving about some unknown damsel.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: think, have, tell, rave · To what, where: something, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 had	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 interesting	advmod
7	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tell	mark
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	advcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 raving	mark
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	raving	rave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 tell	ccomp
14	about	about	ADP	_	17 damsel	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 damsel	det
16	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 damsel	amod
17	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 raving	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	you	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	rave speech: other	gerund				about some unknown damsel	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about damsel=Topic

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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