The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 16

We have been away such a long while that we might easily have had all sorts of adventures.”

Who acts: We · What happens: be, have, sort · To what, where: long while, adventures

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown 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 (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 away	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 away	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 away	cop
4	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 while	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 while	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 while	amod
8	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 away	nsubj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	obj
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 had	aux
12	easily	easily	ADV	_	14 had	advmod
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	aux
14	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 while	acl:relcl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 sorts	det
16	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 adventures	case
18	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sorts	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 away	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 away	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	We		away property	tree rules
2	have	might · perfect	we	such long while	easily property	tree rules
3	sort			adventures		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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