Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 216
And that was the first of the many joyous evenings they had with Wendy.
Who acts: that, feet · What happens: be, have · To what, where: first, many joyous evenings
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 (that, feet), 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 | _ | 5 first | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 first | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 first | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 first | det |
| 5 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 evenings | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 evenings | det |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 evenings | amod |
| 9 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 evenings | amod |
| 10 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 first | nmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 evenings | acl:relcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Wendy | case |
| 14 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | the first | evening | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | feet = foot | the many joyous evenings not said here | with Wendy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evening=Patient |
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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