Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 136
But suddenly this penchant increased to such an extent that his time was almost entirely absorbed with this pastime.
Who acts: extent · What happens: increase, absorb · To what, where: penchant, time
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., 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 (extent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 penchant | cc |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 penchant | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 penchant | det |
| 4 | penchant | penchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 penchant | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 extent | case |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 extent | det:predet |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 extent | det |
| 9 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 increased | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 absorbed | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 time | nmod:poss |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 absorbed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 absorbed | aux:pass |
| 14 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 15 entirely | advmod |
| 15 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 16 absorbed | advmod |
| 16 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 extent | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 pastime | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 pastime | det |
| 19 | pastime | pastime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 absorbed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 penchant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | participle | this penchant not said here | to such extent | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | absorb | past · passive | such extent not said here | Henry's time | with this pastime; entirely property | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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