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title: ‘Needle, needle, stitch away, Make my chamber bright and gay,’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Needle, needle, stitch away, Make my chamber bright and gay,’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 38

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‘Needle, needle, stitch away, Make my chamber bright and gay,’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** stitch away, make · **To what, where:** Needle, chamber

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg7277:44:38
# text = ‘Needle, needle, stitch away, Make my chamber bright and gay,’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	stitch	stitch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stitch away** | imperative | you *not said here* | Needle and needle |  |  |  | away *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my chamber |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chamber=Product |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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