Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 11
It consisted of one large room, as all houses should do, with a floor in which you could dig if you wanted to go fishing, and in this floor grew stout mushrooms of a charming colour, which were used as stools.
Who acts: home, houses, you, floor · What happens: consist, do, dig, want, go, grow · To what, where: floor, fishing, stout mushrooms, charming colour
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 (home, houses, you, floor), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 consisted | nsubj |
| 2 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 room | nummod |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 room | amod |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 consisted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 houses | det |
| 10 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 consisted | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 floor | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 floor | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 floor | det |
| 16 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 dig | obl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 dig | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 dig | aux |
| 21 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 floor | acl:relcl |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 wanted | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 wanted | nsubj |
| 24 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dig | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wanted | xcomp |
| 27 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 grew | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 grew | cc |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 floor | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 floor | det |
| 32 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 grew | nsubj |
| 33 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 consisted | conj |
| 34 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 mushrooms | amod |
| 35 | mushrooms | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 grew | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 colour | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 colour | det |
| 38 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 colour | compound |
| 39 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mushrooms | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 used | punct |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 used | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 used | aux:pass |
| 43 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 colour | acl:relcl |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 stools | case |
| 45 | stools | stool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 used | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 consisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | past | home | of one large room | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | should | all houses | a floor | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | dig | could | you | a floor | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | ||||
| 4 | want a condition, not said to happen | past | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | fishing | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=Theme | ||||
| 6 | grow | past | this floor | stout mushrooms of a charming colour | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mushroom=Theme | ||||
| 7 | use | past · passive | a charming colour | as stools | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as stool=Attribute |
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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