Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 29
It is no part of ours to describe what was a massacre rather than a fight.
Who acts: air · What happens: be, describe · To what, where: part, massacre
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 part | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 part | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 part | det |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ours | case |
| 6 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 part | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 describe | mark |
| 8 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 part | acl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 massacre | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 massacre | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 massacre | det |
| 12 | massacre | massacre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 describe | ccomp |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 16 fight | cc |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 rather | fixed |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fight | det |
| 16 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 massacre | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | air | no part | of ours | tree rules | |||
| 2 | describe | to-infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | a massacre rather a fight | tree rules |
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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