The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 48
There they found so much to amuse them that the hours passed like minutes.
Who acts: Brunhilda, hours · What happens: find, amuse, pass · To what, where: much, Brunhilda · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brunhilda, hours), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 found | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 amuse | mark |
| 7 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 found | ccomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 amuse | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 passed | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hours | det |
| 11 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 passed | nsubj |
| 12 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 amuse | advcl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 minutes | case |
| 14 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 passed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Brunhilda | much | there | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent much=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | amuse | to-infinitive | Brunhilda | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | pass | participle | the hours | minute | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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