Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 114
Mrs. Darling examined them very carefully; they were skeleton leaves, but she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in England.
Who acts: Mrs., parts, tree · What happens: examine, be, not come, grow · To what, where: parts, skeleton leaves, tree, England
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 (Mrs., parts, tree), 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 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 examined | nsubj |
| 2 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs. | flat |
| 3 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 examined | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 carefully | advmod |
| 6 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 3 examined | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaves | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 leaves | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 leaves | cop |
| 10 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaves | compound |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 examined | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 sure | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sure | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sure | cop |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 examined | parataxis |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 come | advmod |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sure | ccomp |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 tree | det |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 grew | nsubj |
| 25 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tree | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 England | case |
| 27 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 grew | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 examined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | past | Mrs. | parts = part | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | parts = part | skeleton leaves | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Mrs. | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not come | past · do-support | parts = part | any tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | any tree | England | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=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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