The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 103

It will be quite easy to get the king to send my brother in search of her, and if he returns without finding her, his head will be the forfeit.

Who acts: king, head · What happens: be, get, send, return, find, search · To what, where: king, brother, search, Princess, forfeit

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, head), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 easy	expl
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 easy	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 easy	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 easy	advmod
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 easy	csubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 send	mark
11	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 get	xcomp
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brother	nmod:poss
13	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 send	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 search	case
15	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 send	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 search	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 returns	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 returns	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 returns	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 returns	nsubj
22	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 easy	conj
23	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 finding	mark
24	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 returns	advcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 finding	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 forfeit	punct
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 forfeit	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 forfeit	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 forfeit	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 forfeit	det
32	forfeit	forfeit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 finding	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	future				easy property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive		the king			tree rules
3	send	to-infinitive	the king not said here	my brother	search of Princess		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brother=Theme in search=Destination
4	return a condition, not said to happen	present	king				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	gerund	king not said here	Princess			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
6	is a	future	king's head	the forfeit			tree rules
7	search			Princess			nom search «act 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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