Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 195
It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.
Who acts: star, lights · What happens: be, put, do, know · To what, where: punishment · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (star, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 punishment | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 punishment | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 punishment | det |
| 4 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 punishment | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 something | case |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 something | acl:relcl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 ago | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 ago | advmod |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 did | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 knows | mark |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 star | det |
| 17 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knows | nsubj |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 knows | advmod |
| 19 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 did | advcl |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 knows | ccomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 what | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | cop |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 punishment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | star | a punishment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | participle | a punishment not said here | on lights = light; for something | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on they=Destination | ||||
| 3 | do | past | lights = light | ago property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | know | present | no star | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | star | 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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