The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 135

At all events we shall have spent an hour or two together.’

Who acts: we · What happens: spend · To what, where: two, events

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 events	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 events	det
3	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spent	obl
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 spent	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 spent	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 spent	aux
7	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 two	cc
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 spent	obl
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 two	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spent	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	shall · perfect	we	two		all events	hour		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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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