Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 68
John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together.
Who acts: John, Wendy, Michael · What happens: live, turn upside, leave, sew · To what, where: boat, sands, Michael
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 (John, Wendy, Michael), 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 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 boat | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 boat | acl |
| 7 | upside | upside | ADP | _ | 6 turned | compound:prt |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 turned | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 sands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sands | det |
| 11 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 turned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Michael | punct |
| 13 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sands | appos |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 wigwam | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wigwam | det |
| 16 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Michael | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wendy | punct |
| 18 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 leaves | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Wendy | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 23 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Michael | acl:relcl |
| 24 | deftly | deftly | ADV | _ | 25 sewn | advmod |
| 25 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 leaves | xcomp |
| 26 | together | together | ADV | _ | 25 sewn | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | John | a boat | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boat=Location | ||||
| 2 | turn upside | participle | a boat not said here | the sands | down property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on sand=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | leave | present | Wendy | Michael in a wigwam not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sew | participle | Michael in a wigwam not said here | deftly, together property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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