The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 15

I go to seek our brother, and when I have found him I shall return hither.’

Who acts: I · What happens: go, seek, find, return · To what, where: brother, boy

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 seek	mark
4	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 go	xcomp
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brother	nmod:poss
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seek	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 return	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 return	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 found	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 found	aux
12	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 return	csubj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	obj
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 return	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 return	aux
16	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seek	conj
17	hither	hither	ADV	_	16 return	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present	I			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	seek	to-infinitive	I not said here	our brother		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
3	find	present · perfect	I	boy		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	return	shall	I		hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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