Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 7
Nana had no doubt of what was the best thing to do with this shadow.
Who acts: Nana, doubt · What happens: have, be, do · To what, where: doubt
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 (Nana, doubt), 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 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 doubt | det |
| 4 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 thing | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 thing | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thing | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 thing | amod |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doubt | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thing | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 shadow | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 shadow | det |
| 15 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Nana | no doubt | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | no doubt | of the best thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | Nana not said here | with this shadow | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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