Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 155

Slightly, if he had an opportunity, would blaze the trees, for instance, Curly would drop seeds, and Wendy would leave her handkerchief at some important place.

Who acts: silence, Curly, Wendy · What happens: have, blaze, drop, leave · To what, where: opportunity, trees, seeds, handkerchief, important place

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 (silence, Curly, Wendy), 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	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Slightly	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 opportunity	det
7	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 blaze	punct
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 blaze	aux
10	blaze	blaze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 opportunity	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trees	det
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 blaze	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 instance	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 instance	case
15	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blaze	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drop	punct
17	Curly	Curly	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 drop	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 drop	aux
19	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 blaze	conj
20	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 drop	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 leave	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 leave	cc
23	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 leave	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 leave	aux
25	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	conj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 handkerchief	nmod:poss
27	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leave	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 place	case
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 place	det
30	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 place	amod
31	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leave	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	silence	a opportunity		slightly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient
2	blaze	would		the trees		for instance	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
3	drop	would	Curly	seeds			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme
4	leave	would	Wendy	Wendy's handkerchief	some important place		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme at place=Location

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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