found entertainment IN

[esmanning]

For a long time you had found your only entertainment IN the quiet pleasure of looking at the sunset. Little Prince ch 6, sent_id = lpp_1943.266

Maybe Locus, but we're not sure whether the location metaphor is strong enough for that. Also considered many other things (Topic? Theme? Circumstance? Means? Stimulus?)

[nschneid]

I would parse it as "find X in Y", not "find [X in Y]". This is an idiom of sorts—if you find X in Y = you discover that Y has some sort of (usually positive) effect on you expressed with an abstract noun.

• "I found entertainment in the daily comic strip"

• "I found beauty in the natural landscape"

• "I found my cat to be intelligent" cannot be rephrased as "I found intelligence in my cat"

Option A, emphasizing experience:

[I]Experiencer~>Agent found [beauty]Topic [in the landscape]Stimulus~>Locus

Option B, emphasizing revealed property:

[I]Experiencer~>Agent found [beauty]Characteristic [in the landscape]Gestalt~>Locus

[nschneid]

Aryaman and I are leaning toward option A.