Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 156
Without more words they fell to, and for a space there was no advantage to either blade.
Who acts: words · What happens: fall, be · To what, where: advantage
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fell | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 advantage | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 advantage | cc |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 space | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 space | det |
| 11 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 advantage | obl |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 advantage | cop |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 advantage | det |
| 15 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 blade | mark |
| 17 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 blade | det |
| 18 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 advantage | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | words = word | without more words | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | no advantage | for a space | 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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