Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 7

At last he sent word into every city and town and country place, offering a prize to any one who should tell him an endless tale.

Who acts: king, one · What happens: send, offer, tell · To what, where: word, last, prize, one, endless tale, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, one), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 city	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 town	cc
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 city	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 place	cc
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 place	compound
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 city	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 offering	punct
15	offering	offer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sent	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 prize	det
17	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 offering	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 one	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 offering	obl
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 tell	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 one	acl:relcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tale	det
26	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tale	amod
27	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	king	word		last	into every city and town and country place	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	offer	gerund	king not said here	a prize	any one			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent prize=Theme to one=Goal
3	tell speech: assert	should	any one	a endless tale	king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tale=Topic

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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