Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 55
There never was a simpler happier family until the coming of Peter Pan.
Who acts: simpler family · What happens: not be, come
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 (simpler family), 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 | 3 was | expl |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 was | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 family | det |
| 5 | simpler | simple | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 family | amod |
| 6 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 simpler | conj |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 8 | until | until | ADP | _ | 13 Pan | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Pan | det |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 Pan | csubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 coming | obl |
| 12 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Pan | compound |
| 13 | Pan | Pan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 was | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | past | a simpler family | there | until the Peter Pan | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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