Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 106

“Were not the leaves at the foot of the window, mother?”

What happens: not be · To what, where: leaves, foot

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 leaves	punct
2	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 leaves	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 leaves	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 foot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 foot	det
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaves	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 foot	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mother	punct
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaves	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 leaves	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 leaves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	past		the leaves and mother		the foot of the window			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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