The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 22

When I shall have found three people sillier than you I will come back and marry your daughter.’

Who acts: I · What happens: find, come back, marry · To what, where: three people, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 found	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 found	aux
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 come	advcl
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 people	nummod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	obj
8	sillier	silly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 people	amod
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 sillier	obl
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 marry	cc
16	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 daughter	nmod:poss
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 marry	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	find	shall · perfect	I	three people	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic
2	come back	future	I		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	marry	infinitive	I not said here	your daughter	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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