The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 100

'I have dropped my needle; wait here a moment while I go and fetch it.'

Who acts: I · What happens: drop, wait, go, fetch · To what, where: needle

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. 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 needle	nmod:poss
6	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 wait	punct
8	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	parataxis
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 wait	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 moment	det
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	obl:unmarked
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 go	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wait	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fetch	cc
16	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 go	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fetch	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	drop	present · perfect	I	my needle			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme
2	wait	infinitive			here	moment	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	present	I				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	present	I not said here	needle			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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