Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 24
Would it not serve them jolly well right if they came back and found that their parents were spending the week-end in the country?
Who acts: hurry, beds, parents · What happens: not serve, come back, find, spend · To what, where: beds, week end, country · 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 (hurry, beds, parents), 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 serve | aux |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 serve | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 serve | advmod |
| 4 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 serve | obj |
| 6 | jolly | jolly | ADV | _ | 4 serve | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 jolly | fixed |
| 8 | right | right | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 serve | advcl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 spending | mark |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 parents | nmod:poss |
| 17 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 spending | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 spending | aux |
| 19 | spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 found | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 end | det |
| 21 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 end | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 week | punct |
| 23 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spending | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 country | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 country | det |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spending | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not serve | would | hurry | beds = bed | jolly property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Attribute | |||
| 2 | come back a condition, not said to happen | past | beds = bed | right property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | beds = bed not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | spend | past · progressive | beds's parents | the week end | the country | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Asset |
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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