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title: I may find some use for that,' he said; and hastened down to the sea… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I may find some use for that,' he said; and hastened down to the sea, waiting till he could lay hold of some stray rope which might float towards him. Who acts: I, some, stumble, stray rope. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 89

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I may find some use for that,' he said; and hastened down to the sea, waiting till he could lay hold of some stray rope which might float towards him.

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**Who acts:** I, some, stumble, stray rope · **What happens:** find, use, say, hasten down, wait, lay · **To what, where:** sea, hold, stray rope · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, some, stumble, stray rope), 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:pg3027:36:89
# text = I may find some use for that,' he said; and hastened down to the sea, waiting till he could lay hold of some stray rope which might float towards him.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
25	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	stray	stray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | may | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | present | some |  |  |  |  | for that | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | stumble |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hasten down** | participle |  |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination |
| 5 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **lay** | could | stumble | hold of some stray rope |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result |
| 7 | **float** | might | some stray rope |  |  |  |  | towards stumble | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination |
| 8 | **hold** |  |  | some stray rope |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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