Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 60
It did not entirely fill the aperture, and he had been looking over it.
Who acts: obstacle, Hook · What happens: not fill, look · To what, where: aperture
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 (obstacle, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fill | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fill | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fill | advmod |
| 4 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 5 fill | advmod |
| 5 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 aperture | det |
| 7 | aperture | aperture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fill | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looking | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looking | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looking | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 looking | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 looking | aux |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 fill | conj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looking | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fill | past · do-support | obstacle | the aperture | entirely property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent aperture=Patient | |||
| 2 | look | past · perfect · progressive | Hook | over obstacle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over it=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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