The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 81
The hours you spend with me pass like minutes, and the hours that I drag through without you seem years to me.’
Who acts: you, hours, I · What happens: spend, pass, drag, seem · To what, where: hours, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hours, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hours | det |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pass | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 spend | nsubj |
| 4 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hours | acl:relcl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 spend | obl |
| 7 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 minutes | case |
| 9 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pass | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hours | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hours | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hours | det |
| 13 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pass | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 drag | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 drag | nsubj |
| 16 | drag | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hours | acl:relcl |
| 17 | through | through | ADV | _ | 16 drag | advmod |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 20 seem | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 seem | nsubj |
| 20 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 drag | advcl |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 seem | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 seem | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pass | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present | you | the hours not said here | with me | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hour=Asset | |||
| 2 | pass | present | the hours | hour; minute | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drag | present | I | the hours | through property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||
| 4 | seem | present | you | me | year | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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 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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