The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 32

He sent forth messengers to all parts of the kingdom to search for them, and published his loss in all the parish churches, but there was no one who had seen anything of them.

Who acts: bull, one · What happens: send, search, publish, be, see · To what, where: messengers, parts, loss, parish churches, anything

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bull, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forth	forth	ADV	_	2 sent	advmod
4	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 parts	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 parts	det
7	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 kingdom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kingdom	det
10	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 parts	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 search	mark
12	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 search	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 published	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 published	cc
17	published	publish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 loss	nmod:poss
19	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 published	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 churches	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 churches	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 churches	det
23	parish	parish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 churches	compound
24	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 published	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 was	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	parataxis
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 one	det
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	nsubj
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 seen	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 one	acl:relcl
34	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 seen	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 anything	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	bull	messengers	all parts of the kingdom	forth property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to part=Destination
2	search	to-infinitive	bull not said here			for parts = part	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for they=Theme
3	publish	past	bull not said here	bull's loss	all parish churches		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Result
4	be	past	no one		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	past · perfect	no one	anything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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