The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 220

Then the Queen pondered the whole night over all the names she had ever heard, and sent a messenger to scour the land, and to pick up far and near any names he could come across.

Who acts: Queen, man · What happens: ponder, hear, send, scour, pick up, come · To what, where: names, messenger, land

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 pondered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pondered	nsubj
4	pondered	ponder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pondered	obl:unmarked
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 names	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 names	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 names	det
11	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pondered	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	aux
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 heard	advmod
15	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 names	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sent	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sent	cc
18	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pondered	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 messenger	det
20	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 scour	mark
22	scour	scour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sent	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 land	det
24	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 scour	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 come	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 pick	mark
28	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 come	advcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 pick	compound:prt
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 come	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 come	cc
32	near	near	ADP	_	34 names	case
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 names	det
34	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 come	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 come	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pondered	conj
38	across	across	ADV	_	37 come	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ponder	past	the Queen		all names	then; night		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past · perfect	Queen	all names not said here		ever		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
3	send	past	the Queen not said here	a messenger				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
4	scour	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here	the land				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent land=Source
5	pick up	to-infinitive	man not said here					vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	come	could	man		any names		across, far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near name=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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