Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 61

They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.”

Who acts: fairies, mauve ones, boys, blue ones, little sillies · What happens: live, be, not be · To what, where: nests, boys, girls, little sillies

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, mauve ones, boys, blue ones), 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 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 nests	case
4	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 tops	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tops	det
7	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nests	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 trees	case
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tops	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 girls	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 boys	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ones	det
13	mauve	mauve	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ones	amod
14	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 boys	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 boys	cop
16	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 girls	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ones	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ones	det
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ones	amod
20	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 boys	conj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 girls	cop
22	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sillies	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sillies	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ones	det
26	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ones	amod
27	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sillies	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sillies	cop
29	just	just	ADV	_	31 sillies	advmod
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sillies	amod
31	sillies	silly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	parataxis
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 sure	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 sure	cop
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 sure	advmod
35	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sillies	parataxis
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 sure	ccomp
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 are	nsubj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 what	cop
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 live	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 live	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	fairies = fairy		nests on the tops of trees		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location
2	is a	present	the mauve ones	boys and the white ones			tree rules
3	is a	present	boys and the white ones	girls			tree rules
4	is a	present	the blue ones	little sillies			tree rules
5	not is	present	little sillies			sure property	tree rules
6	is a	present	little sillies not said here	little sillies			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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