The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 10

I replied that my story was somewhat long, but that if they would take the trouble to sit down, I should be happy to tell it them.

Who acts: I, story, miles · What happens: reply, be, take, sit down, tell · To what, where: trouble, miles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, story, miles), 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 replied	nsubj
2	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 long	mark
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 story	nmod:poss
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 long	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 long	cop
7	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 replied	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 take	cc
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 take	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 take	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 replied	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trouble	det
17	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sit	mark
19	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 take	advcl
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 sit	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 happy	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 happy	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 happy	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 happy	cop
25	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sit	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 tell	mark
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 happy	xcomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tell	obj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	I				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	my story			long, somewhat property	tree rules
3	take a condition, not said to happen	would	miles = mile	the trouble			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme
4	sit down	to-infinitive	miles = mile not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	should	I			happy property	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	trouble	miles = mile		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient it=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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