The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 18

Very soon the story spread, as stories will, and reached the ears of the princess and her husband, and when she knew that her enemy was dead she made her peace with her father.

Who acts: story, enemy · What happens: spread, reach, know, be, make, pacify · To what, where: ears, peace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, enemy), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 spread	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spread	nsubj
5	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stories	punct
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 stories	case
8	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 will	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reached	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 reached	cc
12	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ears	det
14	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 reached	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 princess	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ears	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 husband	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 husband	nmod:poss
20	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ears	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knew	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 knew	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 knew	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knew	nsubj
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 dead	mark
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 enemy	nmod:poss
28	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dead	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dead	cop
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 knew	ccomp
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 made	nsubj
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dead	acl:relcl
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 peace	nmod:poss
34	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 father	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 father	nmod:poss
37	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	past	the story		soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	the story not said here	the ears of the princess and story's husband		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
3	know	past	story			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	story's enemy		dead property	tree rules
5	make	past	story	story's peace	with story's father	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product
6	pacify		story			nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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