Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 191
“About the prince who couldn’t find the lady who wore the glass slipper.”
Who acts: lady · What happens: not find, wear · To what, where: lady, glass slipper
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 (lady), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 find | punct |
| 2 | About | about | ADP | _ | 4 prince | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obl |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 find | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 find | advmod |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lady | det |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wore | nsubj |
| 12 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lady | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 slipper | det |
| 14 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slipper | compound |
| 15 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wore | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 find | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find in a quote | could | the lady | about the prince | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wear in a quote | past | the lady | the glass slipper | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent slipper=Theme |
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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