Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 21
The Never bird became irritated; they have very short tempers.
Who acts: eggs · What happens: irritate, have · To what, where: bird, short tempers
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eggs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 bird | advmod |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 irritated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 irritated | aux:pass |
| 5 | irritated | irritate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 irritated | conj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 short | advmod |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tempers | amod |
| 11 | tempers | temper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 irritated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | irritate | past · passive | the bird | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | have | present | eggs = egg | short tempers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Patient |
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: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (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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