The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 123
'We must have taken a wrong turning!
Who acts: We · What happens: take · To what, where: wrong turning
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 taken | aux |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 turning | det |
| 7 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 turning | amod |
| 8 | turning | turning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | must · perfect | We | a wrong turning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turning=Theme |
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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