The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 39

'I have dropped my necklace of beads in the field, and I must go and look for it.'

Who acts: I · What happens: drop, go, look · To what, where: necklace

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	aux
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 necklace	nmod:poss
6	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 beads	case
8	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 necklace	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 field	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 field	det
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beads	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 go	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dropped	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 look	cc
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 look	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drop	present · perfect	I	my necklace of beads in the field		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=Theme
2	go	must	I			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	infinitive	I not said here		for necklace	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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 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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