Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 120
“The point is, that there is more in my glass than in Michael’s spoon.”
Who acts: point · What happens: be · To what, where: glass
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (point), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 more | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 point | det |
| 3 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 more | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 more | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 is | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 more | cop |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 glass | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 glass | nmod:poss |
| 12 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 more | obl |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 spoon | case |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 spoon | case |
| 15 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 spoon | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Michael | case |
| 17 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 more | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 more | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the point | my glass | than Michael's spoon; more property | tree rules |
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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