Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 38
As his eyes became accustomed to the dim light various objects in the home under the trees took shape; but the only one on which his greedy gaze rested, long sought for and found at last, was the great bed.
Who acts: trees, only one, Hook · What happens: accustom, take, rest, seek, find, be · To what, where: eyes, shape, greedy gaze, last, great bed
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 (trees, only one, Hook), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 accustomed | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 accustomed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 5 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 light | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 light | det |
| 8 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 light | amod |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 accustomed | obl |
| 10 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 objects | amod |
| 11 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 light | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 home | det |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 objects | nmod |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trees | det |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 accustomed | parataxis |
| 19 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 bed | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 one | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 23 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 one | amod |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 bed | nsubj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 bed | obl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 gaze | nmod:poss |
| 28 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 gaze | amod |
| 29 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 bed | nsubj |
| 30 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 gaze | acl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sought | punct |
| 32 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 sought | advmod |
| 33 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 rested | conj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 sought | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 found | cc |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 sought | conj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 last | case |
| 38 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 found | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gaze | punct |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 bed | cop |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 bed | det |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 bed | amod |
| 43 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 accustomed | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 accustomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accustom | past · passive | Hook's eyes | to the dim light and various objects in the home | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the trees | shape | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rest | participle | Hook's greedy gaze not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seek | participle | long property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | find | participle | last | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | the only one | the great bed | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | gaze | Hook | nom gaze «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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