The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 97

There was little pleasure in flying about like this.

Who acts: little pleasure · What happens: be, fly

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little pleasure), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pleasure	amod
4	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 flying	mark
6	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 pleasure	acl
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 flying	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 flying	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	little pleasure			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	gerund	little pleasure not said here					like this; about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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