The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 31

What a quantity there were to be sure!

Who acts: quantity · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quantity), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 quantity	det
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 quantity	det
3	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 were	nsubj
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 were	expl
5	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 sure	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 sure	cop
8	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 were	xcomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	what quantity			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	what quantity not said here					sure property	tree rules

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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