Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 113

But, on the other hand, there were the leaves.

Who acts: leaves · What happens: be · To what, where: other hand

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: who acts (leaves), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 were	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 But	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 hand	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hand	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 were	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hand	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 leaves	det
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the leaves			the other hand; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Location

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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