The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 64

‘Many have passed by seeking those treasures, but none have ever come back; and you will never come back either, unless you mark my words.

Who acts: none, you, my · What happens: pass, seek, come back, not come back, mark, word · To what, where: Many, treasures, words

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, you, my), 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	_	4 passed	punct
2	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 passed	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	aux
4	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 seeking	mark
6	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 passed	advcl
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 treasures	det
8	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seeking	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
11	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	14 come	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 come	advmod
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 passed	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 passed	parataxis
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 come	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 mark	punct
25	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	27 mark	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 mark	nsubj
27	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 come	conj
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 words	nmod:poss
29	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 mark	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present · perfect · passive		Many			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	seek	gerund		that treasures			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme
3	come back	present	none		ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not come back	future	you			either property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mark a condition, not said to happen	present	you	my words			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Destination
6	word		my				nom word «communication 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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