The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 25

The news of these marvels quickly spread through the town, and put fresh spirit into the garrison, so that they declared themselves able to fight under the command of the young stranger.

Who acts: news, marvels · What happens: spread, put, declare, fight, command · To what, where: town, fresh spirit, garrison, marvels, command, young stranger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, marvels), 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 news	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spread	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 marvels	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 marvels	det
5	marvels	marvel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 news	nmod
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	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	_	13 put	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 put	cc
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 spread	parataxis
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spirit	amod
15	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 garrison	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 garrison	det
18	garrison	garrison	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 declared	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 declared	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 declared	nsubj
23	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 put	conj
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 declared	obj
25	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 declared	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fight	mark
27	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 able	xcomp
28	under	under	ADP	_	30 command	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 command	det
30	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fight	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 stranger	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stranger	det
33	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 stranger	amod
34	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 command	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	present	the news of this marvels		the town	quickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through town=Location
2	put	infinitive		fresh spirit	the garrison		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spirit=Goal
3	declare speech: other	past	marvels = marvel	marvels = marvel		able property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Attribute
4	fight	to-infinitive	marvels = marvel not said here		the command of the young stranger		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	command			the young stranger			nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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