Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 202
They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.
Who acts: fairies, room · What happens: be, allow, change · To what, where: complete change
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, room), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 are | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 allowed | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 allowed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 allowed | punct |
| 6 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 are | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 change | mark |
| 8 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allowed | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 change | punct |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 change | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 change | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 change | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 change | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 change | det |
| 15 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 change | amod |
| 16 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 change | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | fairies = fairy | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | allow | participle | fairies = fairy not said here | however property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | change not said to happen | to-infinitive | fairies = fairy not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | must | room | a complete change | 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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