The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 1
The report of this soon spread over all the country.
What happens: spread, report · To what, where: report, country, this
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 report | det |
| 2 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 report | nmod |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 spread | advmod |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 country | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | participle · passive | the report of this | all country | soon property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over country=Destination | |||
| 2 | report | this | nom report «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 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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