Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 150
In the meantime the wood had been alive with the sound of axes; almost everything needed for a cosy dwelling already lay at Wendy’s feet.
Who acts: wood, everything · What happens: be, need, lie · To what, where: meantime, feet
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 (wood, everything), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 alive | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wood | det |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 alive | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 alive | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 alive | cop |
| 8 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 sound | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sound | det |
| 11 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 alive | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 axes | case |
| 13 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sound | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 lay | punct |
| 15 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 16 everything | advmod |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 everything | acl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 dwelling | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dwelling | det |
| 20 | cosy | cosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dwelling | amod |
| 21 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 needed | obl |
| 22 | already | already | ADV | _ | 23 lay | advmod |
| 23 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 alive | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 feet | case |
| 25 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 feet | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Wendy | case |
| 27 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lay | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 alive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the wood | the meantime | with the sound of axes; alive property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | need | participle | for a cosy dwelling | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | lie | past | everything | Wendy's feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
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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