Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 26
It turned out that not one of them thought him a cypher; and he was absurdly gratified, and said he would find space for them all in the drawing-room if they fitted in.
Who acts: It, one, Rather, twins · What happens: turn out, think, gratify, say, find, fit in · To what, where: Rather, space, drawing room · 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 (It, one, Rather, twins), 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 | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 turned | compound:prt |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 thought | mark |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 one | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 one | nmod |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cypher | det |
| 12 | cypher | cypher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 gratified | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gratified | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gratified | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gratified | aux:pass |
| 17 | absurdly | absurdly | ADV | _ | 18 gratified | advmod |
| 18 | gratified | gratify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 turned | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gratified | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 find | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 find | aux |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 25 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 find | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 space | nmod |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 room | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 room | det |
| 31 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 room | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 drawing | punct |
| 33 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 find | obl |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 fitted | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 fitted | nsubj |
| 36 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 find | advcl |
| 37 | in | in | ADV | _ | 36 fitted | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | past | It | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | one of twins | Rather | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme cypher=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | gratify | past · passive | Rather | absurdly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | find | would | Rather | space | the drawing room | for twins = twin | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent space=Theme for they=Beneficiary | ||
| 6 | fit in a condition, not said to happen | past | twins = twin | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: 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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