Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 35

But I've something pleasant to tell you besides.

What happens: tell · To what, where: besides, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 've	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 've	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 've	obj
5	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 something	amod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pleasant	xcomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tell	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 've	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		besides	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient beside=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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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