Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 42
There is a room in the basement of Miss Fulsom’s school where the nurses wait.
Who acts: room, nurses · What happens: be, wait
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 (room, nurses), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 room | det |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 basement | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 basement | det |
| 7 | basement | basement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 room | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 school | case |
| 9 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 school | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Fulsom | Fulsom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Miss | flat |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Miss | case |
| 12 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 basement | nmod |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 wait | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nurses | det |
| 15 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wait | nsubj |
| 16 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 school | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a room in the basement of Miss's school | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | present | the nurses | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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