Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 169
“I think I liked the home under the ground best of all.”
Who acts: I · What happens: think, like · To what, where: home, ground · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 liked | nsubj |
| 5 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 home | det |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 liked | obj |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 liked | obl |
| 11 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 liked | advmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 best | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | like in a quote | past | I | the home | the ground | well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot home=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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