Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 5

By and by the fear of him spread all through the land.

What happens: spread, fear · To what, where: land, war

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Black Douglas.. 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	By	by	ADP	_	5 fear	case
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 by	cc
3	by	by	ADP	_	1 By	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fear	det
5	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spread	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fear	nmod
8	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 land	advmod
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 land	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 land	det
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spread	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past				the land		by the fear of war	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fear=Location
2	fear			war					nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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