Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 55
“The twins began with cheese-cakes.”
Who acts: twins · What happens: begin
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twins), 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 began | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 twins | det |
| 3 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 cakes | case |
| 6 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cakes | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 cheese | punct |
| 8 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 began | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin in a quote | past | the twins | with cheese cakes | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with cake=Subeventuality |
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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