Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 249
Liza was in a bad temper, for she was mixing the Christmas puddings in the kitchen, and had been drawn from them, with a raisin still on her cheek, by Nana’s absurd suspicions.
Who acts: Liza, absurd suspicions, Nana · What happens: be, mix, draw, suspect · To what, where: bad temper, Christmas puddings, kitchen
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 (Liza, absurd suspicions, Nana), 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 | Liza | Liza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 temper | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 temper | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 temper | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 temper | det |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 temper | amod |
| 6 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mixing | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 mixing | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 mixing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mixing | aux |
| 11 | mixing | mix | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 temper | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 puddings | det |
| 13 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 puddings | compound |
| 14 | puddings | pudding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mixing | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 kitchen | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kitchen | det |
| 17 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 puddings | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drawn | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drawn | cc |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 drawn | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 drawn | aux:pass |
| 22 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 temper | acl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 drawn | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 raisin | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 raisin | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 raisin | det |
| 28 | raisin | raisin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drawn | obl |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 raisin | advmod |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 cheek | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 32 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 raisin | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 suspicions | punct |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 suspicions | case |
| 35 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 suspicions | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 Nana | case |
| 37 | absurd | absurd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 suspicions | amod |
| 38 | suspicions | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drawn | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 temper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Liza | a bad temper | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mix | past · progressive | Liza | the Christmas puddings | the kitchen | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pudding=Patient | |||
| 3 | draw | past · perfect · passive | Nana's absurd suspicions | a bad temper not said here | from inmates = inmate; with a raisin on Liza's cheek | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from they=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | suspect | Nana | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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