Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 65
A cradle is such a nice homely thing to have about a house.”
Who acts: cradle · What happens: be, have · To what, where: nice homely thing
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 (cradle), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cradle | det |
| 2 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | cop |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 thing | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 7 | homely | homely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thing | acl |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thing | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a cradle | such nice homely thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | about a house | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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