Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 73

When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very real.

Who acts: you, island, two minutes · What happens: play, not be, go, sleep, become · To what, where: island

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 (you, island, two minutes), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 play	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 play	nsubj
3	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 alarming	advcl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 play	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 day	case
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 play	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 chairs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chairs	det
10	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 play	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cloth	cc
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cloth	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 table	punct
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chairs	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 play	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 alarming	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 alarming	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 alarming	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 alarming	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 alarming	det
21	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 alarming	advmod
22	alarming	alarming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 becomes	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 becomes	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 minutes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 minutes	det
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 minutes	nummod
28	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 becomes	nsubj
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	31 go	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 go	nsubj
31	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 minutes	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 sleep	mark
33	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 go	xcomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sleep	obj
35	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 alarming	conj
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 real	advmod
37	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 becomes	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 alarming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	you		island	day	with the chairs and table cloth	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with chair=Theme
2	not is	present	island				alarming property	tree rules
3	go	present	you					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sleep	to-infinitive	you not said here	island				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	become	present	the two minutes				real property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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