Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 134
There were only two beds in the nursery now, Jane’s and her nurse’s; and there was no kennel, for Nana also had passed away.
Who acts: two beds, kennel · What happens: be, pass away · To what, where: kennel, Nana
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 (two beds, kennel), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 two | advmod |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 beds | nummod |
| 5 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 nursery | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nursery | det |
| 8 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beds | nmod |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 were | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nurse | punct |
| 11 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Jane | case |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nurse | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 15 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | obl |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 nurse | case |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 kennel | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 was | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 was | expl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 kennel | cop |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 kennel | det |
| 22 | kennel | kennel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 passed | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 passed | mark |
| 25 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 passed | advmod |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 passed | aux |
| 28 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 kennel | acl:relcl |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 passed | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two beds in the nursery | there | now | 's Jane's nurse | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | is a | past | no kennel | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pass away | past · perfect · passive | no kennel not said here | Nana | away property | tree rules |
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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