Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 76
He had brought nuts for the boys as well as the correct time for Wendy.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: bring · To what, where: nuts
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 (Michael), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | aux |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 boys | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boys | det |
| 7 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obl:agent |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 3 brought | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Wendy | case |
| 15 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 time | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect | Michael | nuts | time | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nut=Theme |
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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