The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 4

So the old lord despatched his eldest son to look for the wonderful bird, and promised him great riches if he managed to find it and bring it back.

Who acts: old lord, lord · What happens: despatch, look, promise, manage, find, bring back · To what, where: eldest son, great riches, lord, bird

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old lord, lord), 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	_	5 despatched	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lord	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lord	amod
4	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 despatched	nsubj
5	despatched	despatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
7	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 son	amod
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 despatched	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 look	mark
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 despatched	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 bird	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bird	det
13	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bird	amod
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 promised	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 promised	cc
17	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 despatched	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 promised	iobj
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 riches	amod
20	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 promised	obj
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 managed	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 managed	nsubj
23	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 promised	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 find	mark
25	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 managed	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 find	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bring	cc
28	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 find	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bring	obj
30	back	back	ADV	_	28 bring	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 despatched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	despatch	participle	the old lord	lord's eldest son			tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	the old lord not said here			for the wonderful bird	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bird=Theme
3	promise speech: promise	past		great riches	lord		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal rich=Theme
4	manage a condition, not said to happen	past	lord				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	find	to-infinitive	lord not said here	bird			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
6	bring back	infinitive	lord not said here	bird			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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