Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 126
It is strange to think that Peter did not alight in the church and forbid the banns.
Who acts: It · What happens: be, think, forbid · To what, where: banns
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 strange | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 strange | cop |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 think | mark |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 strange | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 alight | mark |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 alight | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 alight | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 alight | advmod |
| 10 | alight | alight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 think | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 church | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 church | det |
| 13 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 alight | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 forbid | cc |
| 15 | forbid | forbid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 banns | det |
| 17 | banns | banns | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forbid | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | forbid | infinitive | the banns | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer banns=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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