The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 30

I was scarcely more than a baby, when the king my father, finding me unusually quick and clever for my age, turned his thoughts to my education.

Who acts: I, king, my · What happens: be, father, find, turn, think, educate · To what, where: baby, me, thoughts, education

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king, my), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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