The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 178
Then all the castle was turned upside down; and when the news spread in the town, THAT was turned upside down too.
Who acts: news, town · What happens: turn down, spread, turn upside · To what, where: castle, town
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, town), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 turned | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 castle | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 castle | det |
| 4 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | aux:pass |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obj |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 turned | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 spread | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spread | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 spread | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 news | det |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spread | nsubj |
| 14 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 town | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 town | det |
| 17 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spread | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 turned | punct |
| 19 | THAT | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 turned | aux:pass |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 town | acl:relcl |
| 22 | upside | upside | ADP | _ | 21 turned | compound:prt |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 turned | advmod |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 turned | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn down | past · passive | all castle | then | down property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spread | past | the news | the town | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | ||||
| 3 | turn upside | past · passive | the town not said here | the town | down property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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