Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 167
Quickly they made-believe to grow the loveliest roses up the walls.
Who acts: roses · What happens: make, believe, grow, rose up · To what, where: loveliest, walls
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), 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 | Quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 grow | mark |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 believe | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 loveliest | det |
| 9 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 grow | obj |
| 10 | roses | rose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 roses | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 walls | det |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 roses | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | roses = rose | quickly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | infinitive | roses = rose not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | grow | to-infinitive | roses = rose not said here | the loveliest | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lovely=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rose up | present | roses = rose not said here | the walls | tree rules |
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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