Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 184

The little house was so pleased to have such a capital chimney that, as if to say thank you, smoke immediately began to come out of the hat.

Who acts: little house, smoke · What happens: be, have, say, thank, begin, come out · To what, where: capital chimney, smoke, you, hat · 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 (little house, smoke), 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	3 house	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 house	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pleased	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 pleased	advmod
6	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pleased	xcomp
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 chimney	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chimney	det
11	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chimney	amod
12	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 say	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 say	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 say	mark
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 chimney	acl:relcl
19	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 say	ccomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 thank	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 smoke	punct
22	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thank	obl
23	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	24 began	advmod
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 smoke	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 come	mark
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 hat	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 hat	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hat	det
30	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little house			pleased property	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	the little house not said here	such capital chimney			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chimney=Patient
3	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	to-infinitive	the little house not said here	such capital chimney			tree rules
4	thank speech: thank	infinitive		smoke	you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	begin	past	smoke not said here			immediately property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	come out	to-infinitive	smoke not said here	the hat			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hat=Result

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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