Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 185
It was the spring of the year, and the story had been told for the night, and Jane was now asleep in her bed.
Who acts: tragedy, Jane · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: spring, story, bed · 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 (tragedy, Jane), 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 | 4 spring | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spring | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spring | det |
| 4 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spring | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 told | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 told | aux:pass |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spring | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 asleep | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 asleep | cc |
| 20 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 asleep | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 asleep | cop |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 asleep | advmod |
| 23 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 told | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 bed | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bed | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 asleep | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tragedy | the spring | year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the story | night | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Jane | Jane's bed | now | asleep 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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