The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 31

News of it went abroad, and the son of the king of Tethertown said that when the battle was fought he would be there to see it, and would bring back word who was to be king.

Who acts: News, son, word · What happens: go, say, fight, be, see, bring back · To what, where: battle, word, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (News, son, word), 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	News	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 News	nmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 son	det
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 king	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 son	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Tethertown	case
14	Tethertown	Tethertown	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 king	nmod
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 fought	mark
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 fought	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 battle	det
19	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fought	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fought	aux:pass
21	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	ccomp
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 there	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 there	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 there	cop
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 fought	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 there	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 see	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bring	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bring	cc
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 bring	aux
32	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 bring	advmod
34	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bring	obj
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 king	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 king	cop
37	to	to	PART	_	39 king	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 king	cop
39	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 word	appos
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	News of Battle		abroad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the son of the king of Tethertown			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fight	past · passive		the battle		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
4	is	would	son		there property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive	son not said here	Battle		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	bring back	would	the son of the king of Tethertown not said here	word		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent word=Theme
7	is a	past	word	king		tree rules

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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