Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 108
Of course he meant to leave room for chairs and a table.
Who acts: Hullo · What happens: mean, leave · To what, where: room
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), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 course | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meant | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 meant | nsubj |
| 4 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 leave | mark |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 meant | xcomp |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 chairs | case |
| 9 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 leave | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 table | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 table | det |
| 12 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chairs | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | Hullo | of course | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hullo not said here | room | for chairs and a table | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent room=Theme for chair=Recipient |
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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