Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 57
The fairies are to put it high up among the tree tops where they sleep at nights.”
Who acts: fairies · What happens: be, sleep
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 (fairies), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fairies | det |
| 2 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 put | mark |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 up | advmod |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 tops | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tops | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tops | compound |
| 12 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 sleep | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sleep | nsubj |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tops | acl:relcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 nights | case |
| 17 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sleep | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the fairies | among the tree tops; put property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep | present | fairies = fairy | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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