The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 103

The fame of this wonderful deed soon spread through the country, and people would often stop Geirald’s horse, and ask leave to see the robber’s ring, which was said to have been stolen from the father of the reigning king.

Who acts: fame, people, leave · What happens: spread, stop, ask, see, say, steal · To what, where: country, horse, leave, ring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fame, people, leave), 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 fame	det
2	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spread	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 deed	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 deed	det
5	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deed	amod
6	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fame	nmod
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 spread	advmod
8	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 country	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 country	det
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spread	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stop	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stop	cc
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stop	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 stop	aux
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 stop	advmod
17	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 spread	parataxis
18	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 horse	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 Geirald	case
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stop	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ask	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ask	cc
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stop	conj
24	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ask	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 see	mark
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ask	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 robber	det
28	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ring	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 robber	case
30	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 see	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 said	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 said	aux:pass
34	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 ring	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	38 stolen	mark
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 stolen	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 stolen	aux:pass
38	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 said	advcl
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 father	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 father	det
41	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stolen	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 king	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 king	det
44	reigning	reign	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 king	amod
45	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 father	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	present	the fame of this wonderful deed		the country	soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Location
2	stop	would	people	Geirald's horse		often property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector horse=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	people not said here	leave			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient clause=Topic
4	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	leave not said here	the robber's ring			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past · passive		the robber's ring			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
6	steal	to-infinitive · perfect · passive				from the father of the reigning king	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»
7	reign	gerund					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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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