The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 27
Helga had so much to think about, that the ride home appeared very short.
Who acts: Helga, ride · What happens: have, think about, appear · To what, where: much
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, ride), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 think | mark |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 much | acl |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 think | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 appeared | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 appeared | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ride | det |
| 11 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | nsubj |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 ride | advmod |
| 13 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 short | advmod |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 appeared | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Helga | much | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think about speech: other | to-infinitive | about property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | appear | past | the ride | short property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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 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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