Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 1

One of the first things Peter did next day was to measure Wendy and John and Michael for hollow trees.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: do, be · To what, where: first things

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 things	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 things	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 things	acl:relcl
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 measure	obl:unmarked
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 measure	cop
11	to	to	PART	_	12 measure	mark
12	measure	measure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 measure	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 John	cc
15	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Wendy	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Michael	cc
17	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Wendy	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 trees	case
19	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 trees	amod
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 measure	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 measure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Peter	the first things not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	is	past					day	for hollow trees; measure property	tree rules

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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