The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 42

A thousand years had passed since the prince first entered the city, but they had flown so fast that the time seemed no more than six months.

Who acts: prince, time · What happens: pass, enter, fly, seem · To what, where: thousand years, city, immortals

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 years	det
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 passed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	aux
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	since	since	ADP	_	10 entered	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 entered	nsubj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 entered	advmod
10	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 city	det
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 entered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flown	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 flown	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flown	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 flown	aux
17	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 passed	parataxis
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 fast	advmod
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 flown	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 seemed	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seemed	nsubj
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 flown	parataxis
24	no	no	ADV	_	27 six	advmod
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	27 six	advmod
26	than	than	ADP	_	25 more	fixed
27	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 months	nummod
28	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 seemed	obl:unmarked
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		a thousand years			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	enter	past	the prince	the city		first property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Destination
3	fly	past · perfect · passive		immortals = immortal		fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	seem	past	the time		month		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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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