Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 32
There were two large white eggs, and Peter lifted them up and reflected.
Who acts: two large white eggs, Peter · What happens: be, lift up, reflect · To what, where: eggs
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 (two large white eggs, Peter), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 eggs | nummod |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eggs | amod |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eggs | amod |
| 6 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lifted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lifted | cc |
| 9 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lifted | nsubj |
| 10 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lifted | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 lifted | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reflected | cc |
| 14 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lifted | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two large white eggs | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lift up | past | Peter | eggs = egg | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reflect | participle | Peter not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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