Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 9
But unfortunately Mrs. Darling could not leave it hanging out at the window, it looked so like the washing and lowered the whole tone of the house.
Who acts: Mrs. Darling, shadow · What happens: not leave, hang out, look, lower, intonate · To what, where: shadow, window, whole tone, house
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 (Mrs. Darling, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 leave | cc |
| 2 | unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 4 Darling | advmod |
| 3 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Darling | compound |
| 4 | Darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 leave | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 leave | advmod |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leave | obj |
| 9 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 leave | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 hanging | compound:prt |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 window | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 window | det |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hanging | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leave | parataxis |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 looked | advmod |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 washing | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 washing | det |
| 20 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lowered | cc |
| 22 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looked | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tone | det |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tone | amod |
| 25 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lowered | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tone | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | could | Mrs. Darling | shadow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hang out | gerund | shadow not said here | the window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | ||||
| 3 | look | past | shadow | like the washing | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lower | past | shadow not said here | the whole tone of the house | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Theme | ||||
| 5 | intonate | the house | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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