The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 79
We were wondering in which direction we should go to find the best dinner.
Who acts: We · What happens: wonder, go, find · To what, where: direction, best dinner
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 (We), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wondering | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wondering | aux |
| 3 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 direction | case |
| 5 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 6 direction | det |
| 6 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wondering | obl |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 direction | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dinner | det |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 dinner | amod |
| 14 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wondering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | We | which direction | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | should | we | which direction not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | we not said here | the best dinner | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Topic |
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.
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