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title: 'We are getting tired of this moor,' they said, 'and to-morrow we th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: '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. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 34

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'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.

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

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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.

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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:pg3027:9:34
# text = '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.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
5	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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 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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