Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 123
It was something for Michael, who on his birthday was getting into shirts.
Who acts: fire · What happens: be, get · To what, where: something, birthday
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 (fire), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 something | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 something | cop |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Michael | case |
| 5 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 something | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 getting | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 getting | nsubj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 birthday | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 10 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 getting | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 getting | aux |
| 12 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 something | parataxis |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 shirts | case |
| 14 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 getting | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fire | something | for Michael | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | past · progressive | Michael's birthday | into shirts | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into shirt=Destination |
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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