Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 56
Every morning the kennel was carried with Mr. Darling in it to a cab, which conveyed him to his office, and he returned home in the same way at six.
Who acts: Nana · What happens: carry, convey, return · To what, where: morning, kennel, Nana, office, same 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: who acts (Nana), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kennel | det |
| 4 | kennel | kennel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carried | aux:pass |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Darling | case |
| 8 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Darling | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 carried | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 cab | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cab | det |
| 14 | cab | cab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 conveyed | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 conveyed | nsubj |
| 17 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carried | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 conveyed | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 office | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 office | nmod:poss |
| 21 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conveyed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 returned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 returned | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 returned | nsubj |
| 25 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 conveyed | conj |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 returned | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 way | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 29 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 way | amod |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 returned | obl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 six | case |
| 32 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 returned | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | every morning | kennel | with Darling Mr.; to a cab | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to cab=Destination | |||
| 2 | convey | past | Nana | Nana's office | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to office=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | return | past | Nana | the same way | at six; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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