Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 36
“What other way is there in which to look at it?”
What happens: be, look · To what, where: way
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 there | nsubj |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 way | amod |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 look | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | parataxis |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 look | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 look | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | way | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=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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