Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 139

They examined the mushroom, which was of a size and solidity unknown on the mainland; they tried to pull it up, and it came away at once in their hands, for it had no root.

Who acts: bobs, mushroom · What happens: examine, be, try, pull up, come away, have · To what, where: mushroom, hands, root

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bobs, mushroom), 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 examined	nsubj
2	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mushroom	det
4	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 examined	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 size	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 size	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 size	cop
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 size	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 size	det
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mushroom	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 solidity	cc
12	solidity	solidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 size	conj
13	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 solidity	amod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 mainland	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mainland	det
16	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 unknown	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 tried	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tried	nsubj
19	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 examined	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 pull	mark
21	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tried	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pull	obj
23	up	up	ADP	_	21 pull	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 examined	parataxis
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 once	case
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 came	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 hands	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hands	nmod:poss
33	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 came	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 had	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 came	conj
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 root	det
39	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 examined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	examine	past	bobs = bob	the mushroom			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Theme
2	is	past	the mushroom			of a size and solidity	tree rules
3	try	past	bobs = bob				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	pull up not said to happen	to-infinitive	bobs = bob not said here	mushroom			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	come away	past	mushroom		bobs's hands	away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
6	have	past	mushroom	no root			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=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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