Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 45
It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.
Who acts: star, children · What happens: irritate, not see · To what, where: mermaid
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 (star, children), 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 | 5 irritating | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 irritating | aux |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 irritating | advmod |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 irritating | advmod |
| 5 | irritating | irritate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 children | case |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 irritating | obl |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 seen | advmod |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 children | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mermaid | det |
| 13 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 irritating | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | irritate | past · progressive | star | to children | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · perfect | children | a mermaid | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mermaid=Stimulus |
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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