Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 26
“Have you been good form to-day?” was their eternal question.
Who acts: you, good form · What happens: be · To what, where: good form, eternal question · 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 (you, good form), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 form | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 form | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 form | nsubj |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 form | cop |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 form | amod |
| 6 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 question | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 to | punct |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 form | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 form | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 form | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 question | cop |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 question | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 question | amod |
| 15 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 question | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present · perfect | you | good form | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be speech: other | past | good form | portals's eternal question | 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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