Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 164

With a blow of their fists they made windows, and large yellow leaves were the blinds.

Who acts: roses, large yellow leaves, fists · What happens: make, be, blow · To what, where: windows, blinds

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 (roses, large yellow leaves, fists), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 blow	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 blow	det
3	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fists	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fists	nmod:poss
6	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blow	nmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 blinds	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 blinds	cc
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 leaves	amod
13	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 leaves	amod
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 blinds	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 blinds	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 blinds	det
17	blinds	blind	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	roses = rose	windows	with a blow of roses's fists	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset window=Product
2	is a	past	large yellow leaves	the blinds		tree rules
3	blow		roses's fists			nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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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