Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 219
It was quite as if she were trying to remain on the nursery floor.
Who acts: body · What happens: try, remain · To what, where: nursery floor
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 (body), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 trying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 trying | aux |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 as | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 trying | advmod |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 trying | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 trying | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 trying | aux |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 remain | mark |
| 10 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trying | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 floor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floor | det |
| 13 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 floor | compound |
| 14 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remain | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 trying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · progressive | body | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | body not said here | the nursery floor | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location |
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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