The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 23

He spent his whole time in making riddles, and inventing plans which he had much better have let alone.

Who acts: king · What happens: spend, make, invent, let · To what, where: riddles

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 time	nmod:poss
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obj
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 making	mark
7	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 spent	advcl
8	riddles	riddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 making	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 let	cc
11	inventing	invent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 let	nsubj:pass
12	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 let	nsubj
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 had	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 let	aux
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 better	advmod
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 had	xcomp
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 let	aux
19	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 spent	advcl
20	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 let	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	king		time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	gerund	king not said here	riddles			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset riddle=Product
3	invent	gerund					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	let	past · perfect · passive				alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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