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title: It seems hardly worth taking with you; you might as well let me have… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It seems hardly worth taking with you; you might as well let me have it. Who acts: It, you, me. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 92

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

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:33:92
# text = It seems hardly worth taking with you; you might as well let me have it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	13	cc	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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