Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 12
A Never tree tried hard to grow in the centre of the room, but every morning they sawed the trunk through, level with the floor.
Who acts: tree, trees · What happens: try, grow, saw · To what, where: centre, trunk
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 (tree, trees), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 tree | advmod |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 grow | mark |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hard | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 centre | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 centre | det |
| 10 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grow | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 centre | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sawed | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 sawed | cc |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 morning | det |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sawed | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sawed | nsubj |
| 19 | sawed | saw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trunk | det |
| 21 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sawed | obj |
| 22 | through | through | ADV | _ | 19 sawed | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 level | punct |
| 24 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sawed | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 floor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 floor | det |
| 27 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 level | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | a tree | hard property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | grow | to-infinitive | a tree not said here | the centre of the room | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in centre=Location | ||||
| 3 | saw | past | trees = tree | the trunk | morning | level with the floor obl; through property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=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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