The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 12

"After having conferred such benefits on you," said he, "I am loth indeed to work you such evil.

Who acts: dervish · What happens: have, confer, say, be, work · To what, where: conferred such benefits, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dervish), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 having	punct
2	After	after	SCONJ	_	3 having	mark
3	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 said	ccomp
4	conferred	confer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 benefits	amod
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 benefits	amod
6	benefits	benefit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 having	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 having	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 having	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 having	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 loth	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 loth	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 loth	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 loth	cop
17	loth	loth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	parataxis
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	17 loth	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 work	mark
20	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 loth	advcl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 work	obj
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 evil	amod
23	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 work	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	gerund		conferred such benefits	on you	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent benefit=Patient
2	confer in a quote	participle				vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	dervish			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	dervish		indeed, loth property	tree rules
5	work in a quote	to-infinitive	dervish not said here	you		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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