The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 49

‘If he will not come of his own free will, he must be brought,’ said the king, and the messengers who had seen the face of the victor were sent to seek him in every street of the town.

Who acts: race, messengers · What happens: not come, bring, say, see, send, seek · To what, where: race, king, face, messengers, street · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (race, messengers), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 come	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 free	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 free	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 free	amod
10	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 come	xcomp
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 free	aux
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 brought	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 brought	aux:pass
16	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 come	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sent	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sent	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 messengers	det
25	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sent	nsubj:pass
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 seen	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seen	aux
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 messengers	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 face	det
30	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seen	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 victor	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 victor	det
33	victor	victor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 face	nmod
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sent	aux:pass
35	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 said	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 seek	mark
37	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 sent	xcomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 seek	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 street	case
40	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	41 street	det
41	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 seek	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 town	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 town	det
44	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 street	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not come a condition, not said to happen	future	race			free property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	must · passive		race			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past		the king			tree rules
4	see	past · perfect	the messengers	the face of the victor			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
5	send	past · passive		the messengers			tree rules
6	seek	to-infinitive	the messengers not said here	race	every street of the town		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in street=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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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