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title: Wait here for a moment, while I lay aside these dirty clothes.’ — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait here for a moment, while I lay aside these dirty clothes.’ Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 37

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Wait here for a moment, while I lay aside these dirty clothes.’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** wait, lay · **To what, where:** dirty clothes

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg641:25:37
# text = Wait here for a moment, while I lay aside these dirty clothes.’
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | here | moment |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | present | I | this dirty clothes |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Result |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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