The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 43

I confess that I was fascinated by it, and for a week thought that nothing could be more desirable; the time passed like magic, so great was the charm of her society.

Who acts: I, nothing, time · What happens: confess, fascinate, think, be, pass · To what, where: I, time, charm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, nothing, time), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 confess	nsubj
2	confess	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 fascinated	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fascinated	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fascinated	aux:pass
6	fascinated	fascinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 confess	advcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fascinated	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thought	cc
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 week	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 week	det
13	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thought	obl
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 confess	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 desirable	mark
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 desirable	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 desirable	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 desirable	cop
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 desirable	advmod
20	desirable	desirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thought	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 charm	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 charm	nsubj
24	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 time	acl
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 magic	case
26	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 passed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 great	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 great	advmod
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 time	acl:relcl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 charm	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 charm	det
32	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 confess	parataxis
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 society	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 society	nmod:poss
35	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 charm	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 confess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	confess	present	I				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	fascinate	past · passive		I		by wit	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	think speech: other	past			week		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	could	nothing			desirable property	tree rules
5	pass	participle		the time not said here		like magic	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	past	the time	the charm		of Sylvia's society	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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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