Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 156

There can be but one room below, for there is but one chimney.

Who acts: one room, one chimney · What happens: be

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 (one room, one chimney), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 room	cc
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 room	nummod
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 be	nsubj
7	below	below	ADV	_	6 room	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 is	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 is	case
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 is	expl
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 be	parataxis
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 chimney	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 chimney	nummod
14	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 is	nsubj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	can	can	one room			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	one chimney			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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