Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 179
Tink agreed to travel by hat if it was carried in the hand.
Who acts: Tink · What happens: agree, travel, carry · To what, where: hat, hand
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 (Tink), 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 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 travel | mark |
| 4 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 agreed | xcomp |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 hat | case |
| 6 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 travel | obl |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 carried | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 carried | aux:pass |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 travel | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hand | det |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Tink | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | travel not said to happen | to-infinitive | Tink not said here | by hat | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hat=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | carry a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | hat | the hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in hand=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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