The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 10
And soon the noise of her beauty spread abroad, and many wooers came to try and gain her hand.
Who acts: noise, many wooers, beauty · What happens: spread, come, try, gain, noise · To what, where: hand
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, many wooers, beauty), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spread | cc |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 spread | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 noise | det |
| 4 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 beauty | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noise | nmod |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 8 spread | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wooers | amod |
| 13 | wooers | wooer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spread | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 try | mark |
| 16 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gain | cc |
| 18 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 try | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gain | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the noise of noise's beauty | abroad, soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | many wooers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | many wooers not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | gain | infinitive | many wooers not said here | noise's hand | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 5 | noise | noise's beauty | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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