Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 250
She thought the best way of getting a little quiet was to take Nana to the nursery for a moment, but in custody of course.
Who acts: Liza, best way · What happens: think, get, be · To what, where: little quiet · Speech: someone speaks here
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, best way), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 getting | mark |
| 7 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 quiet | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 quiet | amod |
| 10 | quiet | quiet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 getting | obj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | cop |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 nursery | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 nursery | det |
| 17 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 moment | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 moment | det |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 custody | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 custody | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 custody | case |
| 24 | custody | custody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 custody | case |
| 26 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 of | fixed |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Liza | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | gerund | the best way not said here | a little quiet | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer quiet=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the best way | moment | to the nursery; take property | 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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