The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 6

He took much pleasure in his visitor’s society; they were together every day and spent the time most pleasantly.

Who acts: wazir, kindness · What happens: take, be, spend · To what, where: much pleasure, society

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wazir, kindness), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pleasure	amod
4	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 society	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 visitor	nmod:poss
7	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 society	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 visitor	case
9	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 together	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 together	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 together	cop
13	together	together	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl:unmarked
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 spent	cc
17	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spent	obj
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 pleasantly	advmod
21	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	17 spent	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	wazir	much pleasure	wazir's visitor's society	day		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pleasure=Value in society=Location
2	is	past	kindness				together property	tree rules
3	spend	past	wazir not said here			time	pleasantly property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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