--- title: 'Maybe I shall find some work there,' he thought, 'and at least I sh… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'Maybe I shall find some work there,' he thought, 'and at least I shall gain money to help me in my search; for who knows how far my sister and my brothers may have wandered?' Who acts: I, voice, sister, my. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/30/55/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/30/) / 55 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 55 'Maybe I shall find some work there,' he thought, 'and at least I shall gain money to help me in my search; for who knows how far my sister and my brothers may have wandered?' **Who acts:** I, voice, sister, my · **What happens:** find, think, gain, help, know, wander · **To what, where:** work, money, least, me, search · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, voice, sister, my), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:30:55 # text = 'Maybe I shall find some work there,' he thought, 'and at least I shall gain money to help me in my search; for who knows how far my sister and my brothers may have wandered?' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Maybe maybe ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 obl _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 gain gain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 21 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 for for SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 32 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 33 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 41 advmod _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 39 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux _ _ 41 wandered wander VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | shall | I | some work | | there | | maybe *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | voice | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **gain** | shall | I | money | | least | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent money=Theme at least=Asset | | 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | me | my search | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | | 5 | **know** | present | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **wander** | may · perfect | my sister and my brothers | | | | | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **search** | | my | | | | | | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/30/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/30/56/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/30/)