Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 117

She let down a tape from the window to the pavement, and it was a sheer drop of thirty feet, without so much as a spout to climb up by.

Who acts: Mrs., tape · What happens: let down, be, climb up · To what, where: tape, window, sheer drop

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., tape), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 let	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tape	det
5	tape	tape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tape	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 pavement	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pavement	det
11	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 window	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drop	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drop	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drop	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 drop	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 drop	det
17	sheer	sheer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 drop	amod
18	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 feet	case
20	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 feet	nummod
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 drop	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 much	punct
23	without	without	ADP	_	25 much	case
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 let	parataxis
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 spout	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 spout	det
28	spout	spout	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 much	nmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 climb	mark
30	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 much	advcl
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 climb	compound:prt
32	by	by	ADP	_	30 climb	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let down	past	Mrs.	a tape	the window to the pavement		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tape=Theme
2	is a	past	tape	a sheer drop		of thirty feet	tree rules
3	climb up	to-infinitive	Mrs. not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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