Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 78
It was a soft cautious tapping on the door of his tree.
Who acts: tenement · What happens: be · To what, where: soft cautious tapping, door
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 (tenement), 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 | 6 tapping | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tapping | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tapping | det |
| 4 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tapping | amod |
| 5 | cautious | cautious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tapping | amod |
| 6 | tapping | tapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tapping | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tree | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tapping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tenement | a soft cautious tapping | the door of Peter's tree | 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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