The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 23

Helga felt as if it would take her all her life to see everything properly, and it only seemed a second since she had entered the house, when Hábogi came up to her.

Who acts: Helga, it, Hábogi · What happens: feel, take, see, seem, enter, come up · To what, where: Helga, everything, house

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga, it, Hábogi), 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	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 take	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 take	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 take	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 felt	ccomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 take	obj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 life	det:predet
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 take	advcl
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 see	obj
15	properly	properly	ADV	_	13 see	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seemed	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seemed	nsubj
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 seemed	advmod
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 second	det
22	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seemed	obj
23	since	since	SCONJ	_	26 entered	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 entered	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 entered	aux
26	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 seemed	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 house	det
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 entered	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 came	advmod
31	Hábogi	Hábogi	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seemed	conj
33	up	up	ADV	_	32 came	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Helga					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	take a condition, not said to happen	would	it	Helga				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Theme life=Destination
3	see	to-infinitive		everything			properly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
4	seem	past	it			second		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	enter	past · perfect	Helga	the house				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination
6	come up	past	Hábogi		Helga			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location

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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