Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 30
Dark as were his thoughts his blue eyes were as soft as the periwinkle.
Who acts: Dark thoughts · What happens: be · To what, where: Dark thoughts
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 (Dark thoughts), 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 | Dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thoughts | amod |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 1 Dark | fixed |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thoughts | cop |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 soft | nsubj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eyes | amod |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thoughts | conj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 soft | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soft | advmod |
| 11 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 periwinkle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 periwinkle | det |
| 14 | periwinkle | periwinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soft | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 soft | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | thing's Dark thoughts and thing's blue eyes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | thing's Dark thoughts and thing's blue eyes | as the periwinkle; soft 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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