Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 200
It was not in their nature to question when Peter ordered.
Who acts: reply, Peter · What happens: not be, question, order · To what, where: nature
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 (reply, Peter), 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 | 6 nature | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nature | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 nature | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 nature | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 nature | nmod:poss |
| 6 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 question | mark |
| 8 | question | question | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 nature | acl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 ordered | advmod |
| 10 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | nsubj |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 question | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 nature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | reply | boys's nature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | question speech: other | to-infinitive | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | order | past | Peter | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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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