The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 105

They spent some happy hours planning how they should spend it, and thinking how clever they had been.

Who acts: tears · What happens: spend, plan, think, be · To what, where: foot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tears), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 hours	det
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hours	amod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spent	obj
6	planning	plan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 spent	advcl
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 spend	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spend	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 spend	aux
10	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 planning	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spend	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thinking	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thinking	cc
14	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 spent	advcl
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 clever	advmod
16	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thinking	ccomp
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 been	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 been	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 clever	cop
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	tears = tear		hour		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	plan	gerund	tears = tear not said here				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	spend not said to happen	should	tears = tear	foot			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
4	think speech: other	gerund	tears = tear not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	participle				clever property	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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