Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 92
Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them.
Who acts: Children · What happens: have, trouble · To what, where: strangest adventures
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 (Children), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 adventures | det |
| 4 | strangest | strange | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 adventures | amod |
| 5 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 troubled | mark |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 troubled | aux:pass |
| 8 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 adventures | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 troubled | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Children | the strangest adventures | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient | ||||
| 2 | trouble | gerund · passive | children = child | the strangest adventures not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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