Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 156
The morning was needed to search for such guidance, and he could not wait.
Who acts: morning, silence · What happens: need, search, not wait · To what, where: morning
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 (morning, silence), 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 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 needed | aux:pass |
| 4 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 search | mark |
| 6 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 needed | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 guidance | case |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 guidance | amod |
| 9 | guidance | guidance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 search | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wait | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wait | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wait | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 wait | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 wait | advmod |
| 15 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 search | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 needed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past · passive | the morning | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | search not said to happen | to-infinitive | the morning not said here | for such guidance | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for guidance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not wait | could | silence | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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