Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 124
No one could ever look quite so merry as Peter, and the loveliest of gurgles was his laugh.
Who acts: one · What happens: look, be · To what, where: loveliest laugh
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 look | advmod |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 merry | advmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 merry | advmod |
| 8 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | xcomp |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 Peter | case |
| 10 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 merry | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loveliest | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 loveliest | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 loveliest | det |
| 14 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 laugh | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gurgles | case |
| 16 | gurgles | gurgle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 loveliest | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 laugh | cop |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 laugh | nmod:poss |
| 19 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | could | no one | ever | merry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | no one not said here | Peter's loveliest laugh | 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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