Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 36
How thorough she was at bath-time, and up at any moment of the night if one of her charges made the slightest cry.
Who acts: Nana, one · What happens: be, make, charge · To what, where: slightest cry
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 (Nana, one), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 thorough | advmod |
| 2 | thorough | thorough | ADV | _ | 8 time | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 time | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bath | punct |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 moment | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 moment | cc |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 moment | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 moment | case |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moment | nmod |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 made | mark |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 made | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 charges | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 charges | nmod:poss |
| 22 | charges | charge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 moment | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cry | det |
| 25 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 cry | amod |
| 26 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Nana | at bath time | thorough property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make a condition, not said to happen | past | one of Nana's charges | the slightest cry | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cry=Product | ||||
| 3 | charge | Nana | nom charge «act 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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