English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 17

Soon the country round about had reason to know of the Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh.

Who acts: country · What happens: have, know · To what, where: reason

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 country	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 country	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 had	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 country	acl:relcl
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 know	mark
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 reason	acl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Worm	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Worm	det
12	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Worm	compound
13	Worm	Worm	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 know	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Spindleston	case
15	Spindleston	Spindleston	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Worm	nmod
16	Heugh	Heugh	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Spindleston	flat
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 country	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the country not said here	reason				about property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
2	know	to-infinitive	the country not said here	reason not said here				of the Laidly Worm of Spindleston	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of worm=Stimulus

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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