Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 20
They were Mrs. Darling’s guesses.
Who acts: books, Darling · What happens: be, guess · To what, where: Mrs.
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 (books, Darling), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Mrs. | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Mrs. | cop |
| 3 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 guesses | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Darling | case |
| 6 | guesses | guess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Mrs. | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mrs. | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | books = book | Mrs. and Darling's guesses | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | guess | Darling | nom guess «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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