Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 107
Her mouth is full of thimbles, but not so full as my mother’s was.”
Who acts: mouth, mother · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouth, mother), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 thimbles | case |
| 6 | thimbles | thimble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 full | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 full | advmod |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 full | advmod |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 full | parataxis |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 was | mark |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 mother | case |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Peter's mouth | of thimbles; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | my mother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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