The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 8

If he found them he would return to his palace; but if he did not find them he would never see it again, and in that case the faithful retainer who had saved the lives of the queen and the princes should be king in his stead.

Who acts: king, faithful retainer · What happens: find, return, not find, not see, save, be · To what, where: sorrow, palace, faithful retainer, king, case · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, faithful retainer), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 found	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 return	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 return	aux
7	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 found	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 palace	nmod:poss
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 return	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 find	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 find	advmod
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 see	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 find	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 see	advmod
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 found	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	obj
24	again	again	ADV	_	22 see	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 king	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 king	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 case	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 case	det
29	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 king	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 retainer	det
31	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 retainer	amod
32	retainer	retainer	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 king	nsubj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 saved	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 saved	aux
35	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 retainer	acl:relcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lives	det
37	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 saved	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 queen	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 queen	det
40	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lives	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 princes	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 princes	det
43	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 lives	conj
44	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 king	aux
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 king	cop
46	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 stead	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 stead	nmod:poss
49	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 king	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	king	sorrow				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme
2	return	would	king				to king's palace result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result
3	not find a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	king	sorrow				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	not see	would	king	palace		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	save	past · perfect · passive		the faithful retainer				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary life=Theme
6	is a	should	the faithful retainer	king	that case		in king's stead	tree 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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