Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 19
He tried to stick it on with soap from the bathroom, but that also failed.
Who acts: Tinker, that · What happens: try, stick on, fail · To what, where: shadow, bathroom
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 (Tinker, that), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 stick | mark |
| 4 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stick | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 stick | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 soap | case |
| 8 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stick | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 bathroom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bathroom | det |
| 11 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stick | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 failed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 failed | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 failed | nsubj |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 failed | advmod |
| 16 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Tinker | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stick on not said to happen | to-infinitive | Tinker not said here | shadow | the bathroom | with soap | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with soap=Theme | ||
| 3 | fail | past | that | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «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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