The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 85

After all, six hundred years is an eternity!”

Who acts: hundred years · What happens: be · To what, where: eternity

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred years), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 all	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 years	det
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 all	punct
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eternity	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 eternity	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eternity	det
9	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 eternity	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 eternity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	all hundred years	a eternity					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 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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