The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 135
This sad news spread like lightning through the country, and the people flocked from far and near to bewail the loss of the beast who had been their pride.
Who acts: sad news, beast · What happens: spread, flock, bewail, be · To what, where: sad news, country, loss, pride
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sad news, beast), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 news | det |
| 2 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 news | amod |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flocked | nsubj |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 news | acl |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 lightning | case |
| 6 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flocked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flocked | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flocked | nsubj |
| 14 | flocked | flock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 far | case |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 flocked | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 near | cc |
| 18 | near | near | ADV | _ | 16 far | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 bewail | mark |
| 20 | bewail | bewail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 flocked | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 loss | det |
| 22 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bewail | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 beast | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 beast | det |
| 25 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 loss | nmod |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 pride | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 pride | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 pride | cop |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 pride | nmod:poss |
| 30 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 beast | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 flocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | participle | this sad news not said here | the country | like lightning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Location | |||
| 2 | flock | past | this sad news | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bewail | to-infinitive | this sad news not said here | the loss of the beast | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past · perfect | the beast | people's pride | tree rules |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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