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title: But as they are still searching for them we must wait a little longe… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 124

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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.'

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

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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.

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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:pg3027:18:124
# text = 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.'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	home	home	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	between	between	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 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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