The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 21

Time passed so quickly for both of them that the youth (for now he was quite a young man, and no more a lad) forgot altogether how long he had been there.

Who acts: youth · What happens: pass, be, forget · To what, where: Time, young man

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Time	acl
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 quickly	advmod
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 passed	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 both	case
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 passed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 both	nmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 forgot	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 forgot	nsubj
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 now	case
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 man	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 man	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 man	cop
17	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	20 man	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 youth	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lad	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lad	cc
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 more	det
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 lad	amod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 lad	det
26	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	vocative
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
28	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	advcl
29	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	28 forgot	advmod
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 long	advmod
31	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 forgot	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 there	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 there	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 there	cop
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 long	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	participle		Time not said here	for both; quickly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	youth	quite young man	a more lad vocative	tree rules
3	forget	past	the youth		altogether, long property	tree rules
4	is	past · perfect	youth		there 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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