English Fairy Tales, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., sentence 28

The only solution is that the curious succession of incidents was invented once for all at some definite place and time by some definite entertainer for children, and spread thence through all the Old World.

What happens: be, spread · To what, where: only solution, definite place, Old World

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse.. 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	3 solution	det
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 solution	amod
3	solution	solution	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 invented	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 invented	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 invented	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 succession	det
7	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 succession	amod
8	succession	succession	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 invented	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 incidents	case
10	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 succession	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 invented	aux:pass
12	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 invented	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 invented	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 place	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 place	det
18	definite	definite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 place	amod
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 invented	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 time	cc
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 place	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 entertainer	case
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 entertainer	det
24	definite	definite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 entertainer	amod
25	entertainer	entertainer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 invented	obl
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 children	case
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 entertainer	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 spread	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 spread	cc
30	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 invented	conj
31	thence	thence	ADV	_	30 spread	advmod
32	through	through	ADP	_	36 World	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 World	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 World	det
35	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 World	amod
36	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 spread	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 invented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · passive		the only solution		some definite place and time		for all; by some definite entertainer for children; invent, once property	tree rules
2	spread	past				all Old World		thence property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=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: «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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