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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 5

Then he commanded a trusty servant to search through the length and breadth of the land till he found a girl fair enough to be queen, and if he had the good luck to discover one he was to bring her back with him.

Who acts: maiden, one · What happens: command, search, find, be, have, discover · To what, where: trusty servant, length, girl, queen, good luck · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (maiden, 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

advmodnsubjdetamodobjmarkadvclcasedetoblccconjcasedetnmodmarknsubjadvcldetobjxcompadvmodmarkcopadvclpunctccmarknsubjconjdetamodobjmarkadvclnsubjnsubjcopmarkccompobjadvmodcaseoblpunctrootThenADVhePRONcommandedVERBaDETtrustyADJservantNOUNtoPARTsearchVERBthroughADPtheDETlengthNOUNandCCONJbreadthNOUNofADPtheDETlandNOUNtillSCONJhePRONfoundVERBaDETgirlNOUNfairADJenoughADVtoPARTbeAUXqueenNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJifSCONJhePRONhadVERBtheDETgoodADJluckNOUNtoPARTdiscoverVERBoneNUMhePRONwasAUXtoPARTbringVERBherPRONbackADVwithADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 commandedadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 commandednsubj
3commandedcommandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 servantdet
5trustytrustyADJDegree=Pos6 servantamod
6servantservantNOUNNumber=Sing3 commandedobj
7totoPART_8 searchmark
8searchsearchVERBVerbForm=Inf3 commandedadvcl
9throughthroughADP_11 lengthcase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 lengthdet
11lengthlengthNOUNNumber=Sing8 searchobl
12andandCCONJ_13 breadthcc
13breadthbreadthNOUNNumber=Sing11 lengthconj
14ofofADP_16 landcase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 landdet
16landlandNOUNNumber=Sing11 lengthnmod
17tilltillSCONJ_19 foundmark
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 foundnsubj
19foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 searchadvcl
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 girldet
21girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing19 foundobj
22fairfairADJDegree=Pos19 foundxcomp
23enoughenoughADV_22 fairadvmod
24totoPART_26 queenmark
25bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf26 queencop
26queenqueenNOUNNumber=Sing22 fairadvcl
27,,PUNCT_31 hadpunct
28andandCCONJ_31 hadcc
29ififSCONJ_31 hadmark
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 hadnsubj
31hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 commandedconj
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 luckdet
33goodgoodADJDegree=Pos34 luckamod
34luckluckNOUNNumber=Sing31 hadobj
35totoPART_36 discovermark
36discoverdiscoverVERBVerbForm=Inf31 hadadvcl
37oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card41 bringnsubj
38hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 bringnsubj
39wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin41 bringcop
40totoPART_41 bringmark
41bringbringVERBVerbForm=Inf36 discoverccomp
42hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 bringobj
43backbackADV_41 bringadvmod
44withwithADP_45 himcase
45himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 bringobl
46..PUNCT_3 commandedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1commandpastmaidena trusty servantthenvn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality
2searchto-infinitivemaiden not said herethe length of the land and breadthvn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through length=Location
3findpastmaidena girlfair propertyvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic
4is ato-infinitivemaiden not said herequeentree rules
5have a condition, not said to happenpastmaidenthe good luckvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient
6discoverto-infinitivemaiden not said herevn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7ispastonewith maiden; bring propertytree 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 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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