Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 137
If they broke down in their make-believe he rapped them on the knuckles.
Who acts: boys, Peter · What happens: break down, believe, rap, make · To what, where: make, boys · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boys, Peter), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 broke | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 broke | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 make | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 make | nmod:poss |
| 7 | make | make | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obl |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 believe | punct |
| 9 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | parataxis |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rapped | nsubj |
| 11 | rapped | rap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 believe | ccomp |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rapped | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 knuckles | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 knuckles | det |
| 15 | knuckles | knuckle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rapped | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break down | past | boys = boy | boys's make | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | believe | infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | rap | past | Peter | boys = boy | on the knuckles | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Instrument on knuckle=Patient | |||
| 4 | make | boys = boy | nom make «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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