Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 214
And before I put you to bed I have just time to finish the story of Cinderella.”
Who acts: I · What happens: put, have, finish · To what, where: you, story
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 (I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 put | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 time | advmod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 finish | mark |
| 13 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 time | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finish | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Cinderella | case |
| 17 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 story | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | I | you | to bed | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal | |||
| 2 | have | present | I | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | finish | to-infinitive | I not said here | the story of Cinderella | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality story=Eventuality |
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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