Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 119
You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella.
Who acts: You, Curly day, each · What happens: see, go, carry · To what, where: twins, office, little bag
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Curly day, each), 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 | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 twins | det |
| 5 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Nibs | cc |
| 7 | Nibs | nib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 twins | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 day | cc |
| 9 | Curly | curly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 twins | conj |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 day | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 office | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 office | det |
| 15 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carrying | punct |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 carrying | nsubj |
| 18 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 see | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bag | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bag | amod |
| 21 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carrying | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 umbrella | cc |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 umbrella | det |
| 24 | umbrella | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bag | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | may | You | the twins and Nibs and any Curly day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twin=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | any Curly day not said here | a office | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to office=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | each | a little bag and a umbrella | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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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