The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 34

'We are getting tired of this moor,' they said, 'and to-morrow we think of trying another, where the lakes are larger and the feeding better.

Who acts: We, ganders, lakes, feeding · What happens: get, say, think, try, be · To what, where: another · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, ganders, lakes, feeding), 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	_	4 getting	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 getting	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 getting	aux
4	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 getting	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 moor	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 moor	det
8	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tired	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 getting	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 getting	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 think	cc
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 morrow	case
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 to	punct
18	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 think	obl
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 think	nsubj
20	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 trying	mark
22	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 think	xcomp
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 trying	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 larger	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 larger	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lakes	det
27	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 larger	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 larger	cop
29	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 trying	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 better	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 feeding	det
32	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 better	nsubj
33	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 larger	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	We		tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	ganders = gander			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other	present	we		to morrow	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	try	gerund	we not said here	another		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Eventuality
5	is	present	the lakes		large property	tree rules
6	be		the feeding			tree rules

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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