The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 24

But, no! he had guessed rightly, for in no more time than his nose had taken to grow long did it take to return to its proper size.

Who acts: shrinking, more time · What happens: guess, take, grow, return · To what, where: nose

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (shrinking, more time), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 guessed	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 guessed	punct
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 guessed	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 no	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 guessed	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 guessed	aux
7	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	7 guessed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 time	case
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 time	det
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guessed	obl:unmarked
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	19 taken	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 nose	nmod:poss
17	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taken	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 taken	aux
19	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 time	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 grow	mark
21	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 taken	advcl
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 take	advmod
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 take	aux
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	expl
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 grow	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 return	mark
27	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 take	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 size	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 size	nmod:poss
30	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 size	amod
31	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 return	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past · perfect	shrinking		time	rightly property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	take	past · perfect · passive	no more time not said here	shrinking's nose			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	grow	to-infinitive	no more time not said here				tree rules
4	take	past · do-support	no more time not said here	nose		long property	vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
5	return	to-infinitive	no more time not said here			to nose's proper size result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to size=Result

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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