Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 1
The more quickly this horror is disposed of the better.
What happens: dispose · To what, where: horror
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 more | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 quickly | advmod |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 7 disposed | advmod |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 horror | det |
| 5 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disposed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 disposed | aux:pass |
| 7 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 better | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 better | det |
| 10 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 disposed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 disposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dispose | present · passive | this horror | of the better; quickly property | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=Patient |
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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