Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 3
They went up by the stair, because they thought this would make a better impression.
Who acts: boys, this · What happens: go up, think, make · To what, where: better impression · 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 (boys, this), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 stair | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stair | det |
| 6 | stair | stair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 thought | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 make | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 impression | det |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 impression | amod |
| 16 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | boys = boy | by the stair | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | boys = boy | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | would | this | a better impression | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product |
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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