The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 8

So the King sent messengers to every town, village, and hamlet in his dominions, to look for a gardener whose forefathers had been gardeners also, and after forty days one was found.

Who acts: King · What happens: send, look, be, find · To what, where: messengers, town, gardeners, one

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 sent	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 town	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 town	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 village	punct
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 town	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hamlet	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hamlet	cc
13	hamlet	hamlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 dominions	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dominions	nmod:poss
16	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hamlet	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 look	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 look	mark
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 gardener	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 gardener	det
22	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 look	obl
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 forefathers	nmod:poss
24	forefathers	forefather	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gardener	appos
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 gardeners	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 gardeners	cop
27	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 forefathers	conj
28	also	also	ADV	_	19 look	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 found	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 found	cc
31	after	after	ADP	_	33 days	case
32	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 days	nummod
33	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 found	obl
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 found	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 found	aux:pass
36	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 look	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the King	messengers	every town and village		hamlet in king's dominions obl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to town=Destination
2	look	to-infinitive	the King not said here				for a gardener	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for gardener=Theme
3	is a	past · perfect	the King not said here	gardeners				tree rules
4	find	past · passive		one		day		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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