Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 5

It was a girl called Tinker Bell exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf, cut low and square, through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage.

Who acts: three, Bell · What happens: be, call, gown, cut, square, see · To what, where: girl, skeleton leaf, figure · 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 (three, Bell), 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	4 girl	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 girl	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 girl	acl
6	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Bell	compound
7	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp
8	exquisitely	exquisitely	ADV	_	9 gowned	advmod
9	gowned	gown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 girl	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 leaf	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 leaf	det
12	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaf	compound
13	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gowned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
15	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 girl	parataxis
16	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 cut	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 square	cc
18	square	square	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 cut	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seen	punct
20	through	through	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 seen	obl
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 figure	nmod:poss
23	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seen	nsubj:pass
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 seen	aux:pass
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 square	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 advantage	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 advantage	det
29	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 advantage	amod
30	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seen	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 girl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	three	a girl			tree rules
2	call	participle		a girl not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gown	participle		a girl not said here	a skeleton leaf	exquisitely property	tree rules
4	cut	infinitive				low property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	square	infinitive					vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see	could · passive		Bell's figure		to the best advantage	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
7	figure		Bell				nom figure «communication 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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