The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 69

Of course the news soon spread through the city, and men and women never tired of calling Gilguerillo an impostor, and prophesying that the end of the three days would see him in prison, if not on the scaffold.

Who acts: end · What happens: spread, call, prophesy, see · To what, where: city, Gilguerillo, prison · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 news	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 news	det
4	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	obl
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 spread	advmod
6	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 city	det
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tired	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tired	cc
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tired	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 women	cc
14	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 men	conj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 tired	advmod
16	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spread	parataxis
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 calling	mark
18	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 tired	advcl
19	Gilguerillo	Gilguerillo	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 calling	obj
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 impostor	det
21	impostor	impostor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 calling	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 prophesying	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 prophesying	cc
24	prophesying	prophesy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 calling	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 see	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 end	det
27	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 days	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 days	det
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 days	nummod
31	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 end	nmod
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 see	aux
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 prophesying	advcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 see	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 prison	case
36	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 scaffold	punct
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 scaffold	mark
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 scaffold	advmod
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 scaffold	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 scaffold	det
42	scaffold	scaffold	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	present			the city	of the news; soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through city=Location
2	call	gerund		Gilguerillo			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent gilguerillo=Theme impostor=Result
3	prophesy	gerund					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	see	would	the end of the three days	Gilguerillo	prison	on the scaffold	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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 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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