Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 23
Why on earth should their beds be properly aired, seeing that they left them in such a thankless hurry?
Who acts: beds · What happens: air, see, leave · To what, where: beds, earth, servants, thankless hurry · 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 (beds), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 aired | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 earth | case |
| 3 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 aired | obl |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 aired | aux |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 beds | nmod:poss |
| 6 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 aired | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 aired | aux:pass |
| 8 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 9 aired | advmod |
| 9 | aired | air | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seeing | punct |
| 11 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 aired | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 left | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | nsubj |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seeing | ccomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hurry | case |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 hurry | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hurry | det |
| 19 | thankless | thankless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hurry | amod |
| 20 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 aired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | air | should · passive | servants's beds | earth | properly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | leave | past | beds = bed | servants = servant | such thankless hurry | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in hurry=Location |
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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