Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 191
If a lady, what would she be like?
Who acts: lady · What happens: be
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 (lady), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 lady | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 be | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 be | obj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 be | aux |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 be | nsubj |
| 8 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 8 be | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | would | lady | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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