Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 56
In the van, on all fours, is Great Big Little Panther, a brave of so many scalps that in his present position they somewhat impede his progress.
Who acts: many scalps, body · What happens: be, impede, progress · To what, where: Great Big Little Panther, van, progress, present position
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 (many scalps, body), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 van | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 van | det |
| 3 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Panther | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fours | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 fours | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 fours | det |
| 7 | fours | four | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 van | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 van | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Panther | cop |
| 10 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Panther | amod |
| 11 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Panther | amod |
| 12 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Panther | amod |
| 13 | Panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brave | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 brave | det |
| 16 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Panther | amod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 scalps | case |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 many | advmod |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 scalps | amod |
| 20 | scalps | scalp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brave | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 impede | nsubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 position | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 position | nmod:poss |
| 24 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 position | amod |
| 25 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 impede | obl |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 impede | nsubj |
| 27 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 28 impede | advmod |
| 28 | impede | impede | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 scalps | acl:relcl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 progress | nmod:poss |
| 30 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 impede | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Panther | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Great Big Little Panther | the van and all fours | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | impede | present | many scalps | body's progress | body's present position | somewhat property | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer progress=Eventuality | ||
| 3 | progress | body | nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=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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