Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 66
Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal.
What happens: vary · To what, where: good deal
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: 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Neverlands | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Neverlands | det |
| 4 | Neverlands | Neverland | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 vary | obl |
| 5 | vary | vary | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 deal | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 deal | amod |
| 8 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vary | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vary | present | a good deal | of the Neverlands | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer deal=Patient |
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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