The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 111

I must leave you at once, and we shall not meet again until you have worn out three pairs of iron shoes and blunted a steel staff in your search for me.’

Who acts: I, we, you, your · What happens: leave, not meet, wear out, blunt, search · To what, where: you, three pairs, steel staff, search

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we, you, your), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 leave	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 leave	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 meet	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 meet	cc
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 meet	nsubj
10	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 meet	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 meet	advmod
12	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 leave	conj
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 meet	advmod
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 worn	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 worn	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 worn	aux
17	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 meet	advcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 worn	compound:prt
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 pairs	nummod
20	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 worn	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 shoes	case
22	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shoes	compound
23	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pairs	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 blunted	cc
25	blunted	blunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 worn	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 staff	det
27	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 staff	compound
28	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 blunted	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 search	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 search	nmod:poss
31	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 blunted	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 blunted	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	must	I	you				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme at once=Location
2	not meet	shall	we			again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wear out	present · perfect	you	three pairs of iron shoes				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pair=Source
4	blunt	past	you not said here	a steel staff	your search		for me	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent staff=Patient
5	search		your					nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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