Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 152
But in what direction, for he could not be sure that the children had been taken to the ship?
Who acts: direction · What happens: not be, take · To what, where: children
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: who acts (direction), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 what | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 what | case |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sure | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 sure | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sure | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 sure | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 sure | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sure | cop |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 what | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 taken | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 children | det |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 taken | aux:pass |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sure | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 ship | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ship | det |
| 20 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | could | direction | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | the children | to the ship | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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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