The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 49

But in spite of the swiftness with which they flew through the air, the time passed even quicker for Saphir and Serpentine, who had so much to think about.

Who acts: fairies, time, Saphir · What happens: fly, pass, have, think about, spite · To what, where: air, spite, much, swiftness

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies, time, Saphir), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 passed	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 spite	case
3	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 passed	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 swiftness	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swiftness	det
6	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spite	nmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 flew	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flew	nsubj
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swiftness	acl:relcl
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 air	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spite	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 passed	nsubj
17	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	even	even	ADV	_	19 quicker	advmod
19	quicker	quick	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 passed	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 Saphir	case
21	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 passed	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Serpentine	cc
23	Serpentine	Serpentine	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Saphir	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 Saphir	acl:relcl
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 had	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 think	mark
30	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 much	acl
31	about	about	ADV	_	30 think	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	fairies = fairy		the air	with the swiftness	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location
2	pass	participle	the time		spite of the swiftness	for Saphir and Serpentine; quick property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spite=Location
3	have	past	Saphir and Serpentine	much			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
4	think about speech: other	to-infinitive				about property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	spite			the swiftness			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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