Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 83
Fairies indeed are strange, and Peter, who understood them best, often cuffed them.
Who acts: Fairies, Peter · What happens: be, understand, cuff · To what, where: Fairies, Peter
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 (Fairies, 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 | Fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 strange | nsubj |
| 2 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 1 Fairies | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 strange | cop |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cuffed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cuffed | cc |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 cuffed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 understood | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 understood | nsubj |
| 10 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Peter | acl:relcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 understood | obj |
| 12 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 understood | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cuffed | punct |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 cuffed | advmod |
| 15 | cuffed | cuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 strange | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cuffed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Fairies | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | understand | past | Peter | Fairies = fairy | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | cuff | participle · passive | Peter | often property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient they=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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