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title: When I shall have found three people sillier than you I will come ba… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When I shall have found three people sillier than you I will come back and marry your daughter.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 22

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

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

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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.

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**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:pg540:28:22
# text = When I shall have found three people sillier than you I will come back and marry your daughter.’
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	sillier	silly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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.

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**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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