The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 83

I had now sixty, and anyone might have imagined that I should be content.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, imagine, be · To what, where: sixty, anyone

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sixty	advmod
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 imagined	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 imagined	cc
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 imagined	nsubj:pass
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 imagined	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 imagined	aux
10	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 content	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 content	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 content	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 content	cop
15	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 imagined	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	sixty		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sixty=Patient
2	imagine	might · perfect · passive		anyone		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	should	I		content property	tree rules

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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