Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 107
He was very busy at the moment measuring Wendy with his feet to see how large a house she would need.
Who acts: Hullo, moment, Curly · What happens: be, measure, see, need · To what, where: Wendy, large house
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hullo, moment, Curly), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 busy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 busy | advmod |
| 4 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 busy | obl |
| 8 | measuring | measure | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 moment | acl |
| 9 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 measuring | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 measuring | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 measuring | advcl |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 large | advmod |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 house | amod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 need | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 need | aux |
| 21 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 house | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hullo | moment | busy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | measure | gerund | the moment not said here | Wendy | with Hullo's feet | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme wendy=Value | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the moment not said here | a large house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | need | would | Curly | a large house not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot house=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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