Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 88
Unlike Slightly’s door, it filled the aperture, so that he could not see beyond it, nor could the one knocking see him.
Who acts: door, pity, one · What happens: fill, not see, knock, see · To what, where: aperture, pity
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 (door, pity, one), 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 | Unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 4 door | case |
| 2 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 4 door | advmod |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Slightly | case |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 door | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 filled | nsubj |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 aperture | det |
| 9 | aperture | aperture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 see | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 filled | conj |
| 17 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 knocking | punct |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 knocking | cc |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 knocking | aux |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knocking | nsubj |
| 24 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 filled | advcl |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 knocking | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | door | the aperture | unlike door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent aperture=Patient | |||
| 2 | not see | could | pity | beyond door | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | knock | could | the one | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | the one not said here | pity | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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