The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 61

You know that when I first heard of him, I told you I was sure he must be really a man, changed into a dog by magic.

Who acts: You, I, dog · What happens: know, hear, tell, be, change · To what, where: you, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, dog), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 heard	advmod
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	advcl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 know	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 sure	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sure	cop
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 told	ccomp
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 man	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 man	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 man	cop
20	really	really	ADV	_	22 man	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sure	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 changed	punct
24	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 sure	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 dog	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dog	det
27	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 changed	obl
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 magic	case
29	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 changed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	You				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hear	past	I			of dog; first property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of he=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	past	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is	past	I			sure property	tree rules
5	is a	must	dog	a man			tree rules
6	change	participle	I not said here			into a dog result; by magic	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into dog=Result

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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