The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 124

But as they are still searching for them we must wait a little longer, and then I'll bring them home, and we will share them between us.'

Who acts: people, I, we · What happens: search, wait, bring, share · To what, where: we, people

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, I, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 wait	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 searching	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 searching	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 searching	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 searching	advmod
6	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 wait	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 searching	obl
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 searching	obj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 wait	aux
11	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 little	det
13	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 longer	advmod
14	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 wait	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bring	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 bring	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 bring	nsubj
19	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 bring	aux
20	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wait	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bring	obj
22	home	home	ADV	_	20 bring	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 share	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 share	cc
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 share	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 share	aux
27	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wait	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 share	obj
29	between	between	ADP	_	30 us	case
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 share	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 wait	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	search	present · progressive	people	we	still	for jars = jar	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent we=Location for they=Theme
2	wait	must				long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring	future	I	people	then	home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	share	future	we	people		between us	tree rules

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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