Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 172
The house was quite beautiful, and no doubt Wendy was very cosy within, though, of course, they could no longer see her.
Who acts: house, doubt, babes · What happens: be, see · To what, where: third
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 (house, doubt, babes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cosy | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cosy | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 doubt | det |
| 9 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cosy | nsubj |
| 10 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 doubt | appos |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cosy | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 cosy | advmod |
| 13 | cosy | cosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beautiful | conj |
| 14 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 though | case |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 within | punct |
| 16 | though | though | ADV | _ | 13 cosy | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 25 see | advmod |
| 19 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 of | fixed |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 of | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 24 longer | advmod |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 see | advmod |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cosy | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the house | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | no doubt | cosy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | could | babes = babe | third | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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