Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 109
To the boys there was at least some glamour in the pirate calling; but all that she saw was that the ship had not been tidied for years.
Who acts: pirate · What happens: be, call, see, not tidy · To what, where: glamour, least, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pirate), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 boys | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boys | det |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 glamour | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 glamour | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 least | case |
| 7 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 glamour | nmod |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 glamour | det |
| 9 | glamour | glamour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pirate | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pirate | det |
| 12 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glamour | nmod |
| 13 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 pirate | acl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 tidied | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 tidied | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 tidied | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 all | obj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 all | acl:relcl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 tidied | aux:pass |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 tidied | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ship | det |
| 23 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tidied | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 tidied | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 tidied | advmod |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 tidied | aux:pass |
| 27 | tidied | tidy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 glamour | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 years | case |
| 29 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 tidied | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 glamour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | some glamour | least | to the boys; in the pirate | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | gerund | the pirate not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | pirate | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not tidy | past · perfect · passive | all | year | 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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