Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 11

Sometimes it was dark and sometimes light, and now they were very cold and again too warm.

Who acts: thought, John · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, John), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 dark	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dark	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	cop
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 light	cc
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 light	advmod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dark	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cold	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cold	cc
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 cold	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cold	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cold	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 cold	advmod
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dark	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 warm	cc
16	again	again	ADV	_	18 warm	advmod
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 warm	advmod
18	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cold	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	thought		dark, sometimes property	tree rules
2	is	past	John	now	cold property	tree rules
3	be		John not said here	again		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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