The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 45

However, as the dove could not be found, he was obliged to tell the king what had happened, and the king in his turn despatched messengers to capture the old man and bring him back.

Who acts: king · What happens: not find, oblige, tell, happen, despatch, capture · To what, where: dove, butcher, king, messengers, old man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	However	however	ADV	_	13 obliged	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 found	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dove	det
5	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	nsubj:pass
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 found	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 found	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 found	aux:pass
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 obliged	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 obliged	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 obliged	aux:pass
13	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 tell	mark
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 obliged	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 happened	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 happened	aux
20	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 tell	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 despatched	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 despatched	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 despatched	nsubj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 turn	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 turn	nmod:poss
27	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 king	nmod
28	despatched	despatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 obliged	conj
29	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 despatched	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 capture	mark
31	capture	capture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 despatched	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 man	det
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 man	amod
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 capture	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 bring	cc
36	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 capture	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bring	obj
38	back	back	ADV	_	36 bring	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not find	could · passive		the dove			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	oblige	past · passive		butcher		however property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			the king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
4	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	despatch	past	the king in butcher's turn	messengers			tree rules
6	capture	to-infinitive	the king in butcher's turn not said here	the old man			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
7	bring back	infinitive	the king in butcher's turn not said here		butcher		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

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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