Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 194
Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever.
Who acts: Stars, lights · What happens: be, not take, look on · To what, where: active part, anything
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 (Stars, lights), 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 | Stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 take | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 take | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 take | advmod |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 beautiful | parataxis |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 part | det |
| 11 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 part | amod |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 anything | case |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 take | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 look | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 look | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 look | aux |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 look | advmod |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 take | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 look | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 ever | case |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 look | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Stars | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not take | may | lights = light | a active part | anything | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in anything=Location | |||
| 3 | look on | must | lights = light | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for ever=Theme |
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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