The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 92

It seems hardly worth taking with you; you might as well let me have it.

Who acts: It, you, me · What happens: seem, take, let, have · To what, where: me, box

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 (It, you, me), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seems	nsubj
2	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 worth	advmod
4	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seems	xcomp
5	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 worth	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 taking	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 let	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 let	aux
11	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	13 let	cc
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 as	fixed
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seems	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 have	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	It		worth property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	take	gerund			with you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	let	might	you	me		tree rules
4	have	infinitive	me not said here	box		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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