Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 177
They were very ashamed, but Tootles gave the sole of his shoe, and it made an excellent knocker.
Who acts: leaves, Tootles, sole · What happens: be, give, make · To what, where: sole, excellent knocker
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 (leaves, Tootles, sole), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ashamed | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ashamed | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 ashamed | advmod |
| 4 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 7 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ashamed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sole | det |
| 10 | sole | sole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 shoe | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sole | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ashamed | parataxis |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 knocker | det |
| 19 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 knocker | amod |
| 20 | knocker | knocker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | leaves = leaf | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Tootles | the sole of knocker's shoe | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sole=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | sole | a excellent knocker | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material knocker=Product |
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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