Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 84
Rabbits could not have disappeared more quickly.
Who acts: Rabbits · What happens: not disappear
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 (Rabbits), 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 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 disappeared | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 disappeared | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 disappeared | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 disappeared | aux |
| 5 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 quickly | advmod |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 disappeared | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not disappear | could · perfect | Rabbits | quickly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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