Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 6
You may be sure Mrs. Darling examined the shadow carefully, but it was quite the ordinary kind.
Who acts: You, Mrs., shadow · What happens: be, examine · To what, where: shadow, ordinary kind
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 (You, Mrs., shadow), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 examined | nsubj |
| 6 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mrs. | flat |
| 7 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shadow | det |
| 9 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 examined | obj |
| 10 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 7 examined | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kind | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 kind | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kind | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 kind | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 kind | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kind | det |
| 17 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kind | amod |
| 18 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sure | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | You | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | examine | past | Mrs. | the shadow | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | past | shadow | quite ordinary kind | 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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