More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 84
The news was spread all up and down the country-side how Tom Hickathrift had killed the giant.
What happens: spread, kill · To what, where: news, Tom
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | aux:pass |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 up | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 spread | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 killed | cc |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 side | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 country | punct |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | obl |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 killed | advmod |
| 14 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | Hickathrift | Hickathrift | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Tom | flat |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 killed | aux |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spread | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 giant | det |
| 19 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past · passive | the news | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect · passive | Tom | down the country side | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer giant=Result |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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