Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 138
It was Jane’s invention to raise the sheet over her mother’s head and her own, thus making a tent, and in the awful darkness to whisper:
Who acts: story · What happens: be, raise, make, whisper · To what, where: invention, sheet, head, tent
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 (story), 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 | 5 invention | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 invention | cop |
| 3 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 invention | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Jane | case |
| 5 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 raise | mark |
| 7 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 invention | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sheet | det |
| 9 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raise | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 mother | case |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raise | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 own | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 own | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 head | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 making | punct |
| 19 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 20 making | advmod |
| 20 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 raise | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tent | det |
| 22 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 making | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 darkness | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 darkness | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 darkness | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 darkness | det |
| 27 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 darkness | amod |
| 28 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invention | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 whisper | mark |
| 30 | whisper | whisper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 darkness | acl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 invention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | story | Jane's invention and the awful darkness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | raise | to-infinitive | the sheet | Jane's mother's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sheet=Theme over head=Destination | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | a tent | thus property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tent=Product | ||||
| 4 | whisper speech: assert | to-infinitive | story not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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