Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 46
They had to do, I think, with the riddle of his existence.
Who acts: dreams, I, existence, Peter · What happens: have, do, think, riddle, exist
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 (dreams, I, existence, Peter), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 riddle | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 riddle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 riddle | det |
| 11 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 existence | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 existence | nmod:poss |
| 14 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 riddle | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | dreams = dream | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | dreams = dream not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | I | with the riddle of Peter's existence | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | riddle | Peter's existence | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | exist | Peter | nom existence «state 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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