Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 87
But how have they reached it? for there is no entrance to be seen, not so much as a large stone, which if rolled away, would disclose the mouth of a cave.
Who acts: Rabbits, entrance · What happens: reach, be, see, roll away, disclose · To what, where: deal, entrance, large stone, mouth
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, entrance), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 entrance | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 reached | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | aux |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 entrance | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 is | case |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 entrance | cop |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 entrance | det |
| 12 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 disclose | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 seen | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 entrance | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 much | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 much | advmod |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seen | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 stone | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 stone | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stone | amod |
| 23 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 much | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rolled | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 rolled | mark |
| 27 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 stone | acl:relcl |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 rolled | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 entrance | punct |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 disclose | aux |
| 31 | disclose | disclose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 mouth | det |
| 33 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 disclose | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 cave | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 cave | det |
| 36 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mouth | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 disclose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | Rabbits = rabbit | deal | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | no entrance | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive · passive | no entrance not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | roll away a condition, not said to happen | participle · passive | a large stone | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | ||||
| 5 | disclose | would | no entrance | the mouth of a cave | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mouth=Topic |
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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