Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 89
These are the seven entrances to the home under the ground, for which Hook has been searching in vain these many moons.
Who acts: These, Hook · What happens: be, search · To what, where: seven entrances, many moons, vain
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 (These, Hook), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 entrances | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 entrances | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 entrances | det |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 entrances | nummod |
| 5 | entrances | entrance | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 home | det |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entrances | nmod |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 home | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 searching | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 searching | obl |
| 15 | Hook | Hook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 searching | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 searching | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 searching | aux |
| 18 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 entrances | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 vain | case |
| 20 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 searching | obl |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 moons | det |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 moons | amod |
| 23 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 searching | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 entrances | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | These | the seven entrances | to the home under the ground | tree rules | |||
| 2 | search | present · perfect · progressive | Hook | this many moons | vain | for the seven entrances | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent moon=Location for which=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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