The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 7
So messengers were sent far and wide to seek for a bride equal to the late Queen in beauty.
What happens: send, seek · To what, where: messengers, beauty
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux:pass |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sent | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wide | cc |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 far | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 seek | mark |
| 9 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 bride | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bride | det |
| 12 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seek | obl |
| 13 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bride | amod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Queen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Queen | det |
| 16 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Queen | amod |
| 17 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 equal | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 beauty | case |
| 19 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seek | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | messengers | far property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | beauty | for a bride | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for bride=Theme in beauty=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/7/