The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 41

‘Farewell: my foot shall not return to the house till I have found other three people as silly as you,’ and he walked away till he came to the town, and seeing the door of a cottage standing open wide, he entered.

Who acts: foot, I, cottage · What happens: not return, find, walk away, come, see, stand · To what, where: other three people, town, door

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot, I, cottage), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 return	punct
2	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	8 return	discourse
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 Farewell	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 foot	nmod:poss
5	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 return	nsubj
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 return	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 return	advmod
8	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 return	obl
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 found	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 found	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 found	aux
15	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 return	advcl
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 people	amod
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 people	nummod
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 found	obj
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 silly	advmod
20	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 found	xcomp
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 silly	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 return	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 return	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 walked	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 walked	nsubj
27	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 return	conj
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 walked	advmod
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	31 came	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 walked	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 town	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 town	det
34	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 entered	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 entered	cc
37	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 entered	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 door	det
39	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 seeing	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 cottage	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 cottage	det
42	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 door	nmod
43	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 cottage	acl
44	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 standing	xcomp
45	wide	wide	ADV	_	43 standing	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 seeing	punct
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 entered	nsubj
48	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 walked	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not return	shall	my foot			to the house result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
2	find	present · perfect	I	other three people		silly property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic
3	walk away	past	foot			away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	foot		the town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
5	see	gerund	foot not said here	the door of a cottage			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus
6	stand	gerund	a cottage not said here			open, wide property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	enter	past	foot				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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