Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 218
The little house looked so cosy and safe in the darkness, with a bright light showing through its blinds, and the chimney smoking beautifully, and Peter standing on guard.
Who acts: little house, bright light, chimney, Peter · What happens: look, show, smoke, stand · To what, where: blinds, guard
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, bright light, chimney, Peter), 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 | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 cosy | advmod |
| 6 | cosy | cosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 safe | cc |
| 8 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cosy | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 darkness | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 darkness | det |
| 11 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 safe | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 light | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 light | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 15 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 light | amod |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | conj |
| 17 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 light | acl |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 blinds | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 blinds | nmod:poss |
| 20 | blinds | blind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 showing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 smoking | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 smoking | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 chimney | det |
| 24 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 smoking | nsubj |
| 25 | smoking | smoke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 looked | advcl |
| 26 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 25 smoking | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 standing | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 standing | cc |
| 29 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 standing | nsubj |
| 30 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 looked | advcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 guard | case |
| 32 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 standing | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the little house | cosy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | show | gerund | a bright light not said here | house's blinds | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | smoke | gerund | the chimney | beautifully property | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | Peter | guard | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on guard=Location |
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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