The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 131

The colour was very rare, and none could be found like it, and the king made a proclamation that if anyone happened to possess any they should bring it to the court, and he would give them a large sum.

Who acts: colour, king, anyone, any · What happens: be, find, make, happen, possess, bring · To what, where: none, proclamation, court, large sum, tailors

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colour, king, anyone, any), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rare	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rare	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 rare	advmod
5	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
8	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 found	nsubj:pass
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 found	aux:pass
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rare	parataxis
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rare	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 proclamation	det
20	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 happened	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 happened	mark
23	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 happened	nsubj
24	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 possess	mark
26	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 happened	xcomp
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 bring	nsubj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bring	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 bring	aux
30	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 possess	ccomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bring	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 court	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 court	det
34	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bring	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 give	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 give	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 give	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 give	aux
39	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rare	parataxis
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 give	iobj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 sum	det
42	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 sum	amod
43	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the colour				rare property	tree rules
2	find	could · passive		none			like colour	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	make	past	the king	a proclamation				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proclamation=Product
4	happen a condition, not said to happen	past	anyone					tree rules
5	possess	to-infinitive	anyone not said here					tree rules
6	bring	should	any	proclamation		the court		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to court=Destination
7	give	would	King	a large sum	tailors = tailor			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient sum=Theme

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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