The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 48
More than an hour passed by and the hedgehog had had plenty of time to go to the spring and back, and still there was no sign of him.
Who acts: hedgehog, hour · What happens: pass by, have, go, be · To what, where: hour, plenty, sign
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (hedgehog, hour), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 hour | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sign | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hour | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hedgehog | det |
| 9 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | aux |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 passed | conj |
| 12 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plenty | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 time | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 spring | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spring | det |
| 19 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 back | cc |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 spring | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 was | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 was | cc |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 was | advmod |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sign | cop |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 sign | det |
| 28 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sign | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 sign | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | a hour not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past · perfect | the hedgehog | plenty of time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | the hedgehog not said here | spring | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a hour | no sign | of hedgehog | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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