Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 152
You see, she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still.
Who acts: You, Mrs., this, dream · What happens: see, think, be, hang, dream · To what, where: children, beds, dream, Mrs. · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, Mrs., this, dream), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | ccomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 beds | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 beds | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | obl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 often | advmod |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 dreams | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dreams | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | obj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 thought | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | advcl |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 dream | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dream | cop |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 dream | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dream | det |
| 22 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 dream | acl |
| 24 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hanging | obj |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 hanging | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Mrs. | children = child | children's beds | tree rules | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Mrs. | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | this | the dream | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hang | gerund | the dream not said here | Mrs. | still | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Patient | |||
| 6 | dream | Mrs. | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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