The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 32

The story spread all over the country about the fine horse that had been sold and then had disappeared, and at last the news came to the ears of the wizard.

Who acts: story, last · What happens: spread, sell, have, come · To what, where: country, fine horse, ears

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, last), 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 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	nsubj
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 country	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 country	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	obl
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 horse	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horse	det
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 horse	amod
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 country	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sold	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sold	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 sold	aux:pass
15	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 horse	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 had	advmod
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sold	conj
19	disappeared	disappeared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 had	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 came	nsubj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 news	det
25	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 last	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 ears	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ears	det
29	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 came	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 wizard	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wizard	det
32	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ears	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past	the story		the country about the fine horse			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over country=Location
2	sell	past · perfect · passive		the fine horse				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	have	past				then	disappeared property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	last		the ears of the wizard			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial_Location

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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