Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 39
She believed to her last day in old-fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf, and made sounds of contempt over all this new-fangled talk about germs, and so on.
Who acts: Nana · What happens: believe, make, fangl · To what, where: sounds, new fangled talk
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), 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 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 day | nmod:poss |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 believed | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 remedies | case |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fashioned | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 old | punct |
| 10 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 remedies | amod |
| 11 | remedies | remedy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 day | nmod |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 leaf | case |
| 13 | rhubarb | rhubarb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaf | compound |
| 14 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remedies | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 believed | conj |
| 18 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 contempt | case |
| 20 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sounds | nmod |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 talk | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 talk | det:predet |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 talk | det |
| 24 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 talk | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 new | punct |
| 26 | fangled | fangl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 talk | amod |
| 27 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 germs | case |
| 29 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 talk | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 on | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 on | cc |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 on | advmod |
| 33 | on | on | ADV | _ | 17 made | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | Nana | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Nana not said here | sounds of contempt | all new fangled talk about germs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | |||
| 3 | fangl | participle | tree rules |
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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