The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 94

It took him a long time, for there were a great many of them, but at last he had them all in his hand.

Who acts: It, great many, rock · What happens: take, be, have · To what, where: rock, pieces, last

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, great many, rock), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 were	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 were	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 were	expl
10	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 many	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 many	amod
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 were	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 many	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	obj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 them	nmod:unmarked
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hand	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It		rock		time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	be	past	a great many of pieces			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	rock	pieces = piece		last		in rock's hand	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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