Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 158
“I wish I had a pretty house, The littlest ever seen, With funny little red walls And roof of mossy green.”
Who acts: Wendy · What happens: wish, have, see · To what, where: pretty house · 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 (Wendy), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 walls | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 walls | det |
| 11 | littlest | little | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 walls | amod |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 seen | advmod |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 walls | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 walls | punct |
| 15 | With | with | ADP | _ | 19 walls | case |
| 16 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 walls | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 walls | amod |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 walls | amod |
| 19 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 house | conj |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 roof | cc |
| 21 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 green | case |
| 23 | mossy | mossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 green | amod |
| 24 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 roof | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | Wendy | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | Wendy | a pretty house and the littlest seen funny little red walls and roof of mossy green | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | participle | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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