The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 59

The story of the zither soon spread through the town, and on the following morning the king and his whole court and a large crowd of people were gathered at the foot of the gallows to see the youth hanged.

Who acts: story · What happens: spread, follow, gather, see · To what, where: town, king, foot, youth

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spread	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 zither	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 zither	det
5	zither	zither	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 story	nmod
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 spread	advmod
7	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spread	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gathered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gathered	cc
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 morning	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 morning	det
15	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 morning	amod
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gathered	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gathered	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 court	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 court	nmod:poss
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 court	amod
22	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 king	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 crowd	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 crowd	det
25	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 crowd	amod
26	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 king	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 people	case
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 crowd	nmod
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gathered	aux:pass
30	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 spread	conj
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 foot	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 foot	det
33	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gathered	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 gallows	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 gallows	det
36	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 foot	nmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 see	mark
38	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 gathered	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 youth	det
40	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 see	obj
41	hanged	hanged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 see	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	present	the story of the zither		the town		soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through town=Location
2	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	gather	past · passive		the king and king's whole court and a large crowd of people	the foot of the gallows	morning		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at foot=Asset
4	see	to-infinitive		the youth			hanged property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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