Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 53
The question now was how to get down the trees, or how to get his dogs down?
Who acts: question · What happens: be, get down · To what, where: dogs
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 (question), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 question | det |
| 2 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 get | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | cop |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 get | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 get | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trees | det |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 get | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 get | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 get | advmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the question | now | get property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get down | to-infinitive | the question not said here | Peter's dogs | down property | 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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