--- title: ‘Farewell: my foot shall not return to the house till I have found o… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Farewell: my foot shall not return to the house till I have found other three people as silly as you,’ and he walked away till he came to the town, and seeing the door of a cottage standing open wide, he entered. Who acts: foot, I, cottage. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The L --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/) / 41 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 41 ‘Farewell: my foot shall not return to the house till I have found other three people as silly as you,’ and he walked away till he came to the town, and seeing the door of a cottage standing open wide, he entered. **Who acts:** foot, I, cottage · **What happens:** not return, find, walk away, come, see, stand · **To what, where:** other three people, town, door This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot, I, cottage), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:36:41 # text = ‘Farewell: my foot shall not return to the house till I have found other three people as silly as you,’ and he walked away till he came to the town, and seeing the door of a cottage standing open wide, he entered. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Farewell farewell INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 till till SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 16 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 28 away away ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 till till SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 37 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 acl _ _ 44 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ _ 45 wide wide ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **return** | shall | my foot | | | | | to the house *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | | 2 | **find** | present · perfect | I | other three people | | | | silly *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | | 3 | **walk away** | past | foot | | | | | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | past | foot | | | the town | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **see** | gerund | foot *not said here* | the door of a cottage | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus | | 6 | **stand** | gerund | a cottage *not said here* | | | | | open, wide *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **enter** | past | foot | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/42/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/)