Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 201

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

Who acts: Fairies · What happens: have, be · To what, where: one thing, room

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 (Fairies), 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	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 thing	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 thing	nummod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	ccomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 other	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 small	mark
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 small	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 small	advmod
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 have	advcl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
16	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	17 have	advmod
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 feeling	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 feeling	nummod
21	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 room	nmod
22	only	only	ADV	_	25 time	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 time	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obl:unmarked
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Fairies				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive	Fairies not said here	one thing			tree rules
3	be		Fairies not said here				tree rules
4	is	gerund	fairies = fairy not said here			small property	tree rules
5	have	present	fairies = fairy	room	time	for one feeling; unfortunately property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient

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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