The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 41

And having found three people more foolish than his bride, or her father or her mother, the lover went back to marry the young lady.

Who acts: father · What happens: find, go back, marry · To what, where: three people, young lady

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 (father), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 found	cc
2	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 found	aux
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 people	nummod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 found	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 foolish	advmod
7	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	xcomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 bride	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bride	nmod:poss
10	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 foolish	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	nsubj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 mother	cc
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 father	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lover	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lover	det
20	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 father	conj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	parataxis
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 marry	mark
24	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 went	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lady	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lady	amod
27	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 marry	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	gerund · perfect		three people	foolish property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic
2	go back	past	bride's father or bride's mother and the lover			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	marry	to-infinitive	bride's father or bride's mother and the lover not said here	the young lady		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=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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