Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 41
On John’s footer days she never once forgot his sweater, and she usually carried an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain.
Who acts: Nana · What happens: not forget, carry · To what, where: sweater, umbrella, mouth
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 days | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 John | case |
| 4 | footer | footer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 days | compound |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 forgot | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 forgot | nsubj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 forgot | advmod |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 forgot | advmod |
| 9 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sweater | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sweater | sweater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forgot | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carried | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carried | nsubj |
| 15 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 16 carried | advmod |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 forgot | conj |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 umbrella | det |
| 18 | umbrella | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 mouth | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 case | case |
| 23 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 rain | case |
| 25 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 case | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | past | Nana | garden's sweater | day | once property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | carry | past | Nana | a umbrella | Nana's mouth | in case of rain; usually property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent umbrella=Value in mouth=Location |
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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