Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 86
Of course all the boys went to school; and most of them got into Class III, but Slightly was put first into Class IV and then into Class V. Class I is the top class.
Who acts: boys, most, I · What happens: go, get, put, be · To what, where: school, Class, top class, Class V. Class
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, most, I), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 boys | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 boys | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boys | det |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 school | case |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 got | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 most | nmod |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 Class | case |
| 16 | Class | Class | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 17 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 16 Class | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 20 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 22 put | advmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 put | aux:pass |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 went | parataxis |
| 23 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 put | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 Class | case |
| 25 | Class | Class | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 26 | IV | IV | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 25 Class | flat |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 class | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 class | advmod |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 Class | case |
| 30 | Class | Class | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Class | compound |
| 31 | V. | V. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Class | compound |
| 32 | Class | Class | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 class | obl |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 class | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 class | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 class | det |
| 36 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 class | amod |
| 37 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | all boys | school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | get | past | most of boys | Class | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into class=Destination | ||||
| 3 | put | past · passive | Class | first, slightly property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | I | the top class | Class V. Class | then | 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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