Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 14
There was an enormous fireplace which was in almost any part of the room where you cared to light it, and across this Wendy stretched strings, made of fibre, from which she suspended her washing.
Who acts: enormous fireplace, you, fireplace · What happens: be, care, light, stretch, make, suspend · To what, where: part, room, strings, Wendy, washing
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 (enormous fireplace, you, fireplace), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fireplace | det |
| 4 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fireplace | amod |
| 5 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 part | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 part | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 part | case |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 part | advmod |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fireplace | acl:relcl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nmod |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 cared | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 cared | nsubj |
| 17 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 room | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 light | mark |
| 19 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 cared | xcomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 light | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stretched | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stretched | cc |
| 23 | across | across | ADP | _ | 25 Wendy | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 Wendy | det |
| 25 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 stretched | obl |
| 26 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 27 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 stretched | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 strings | acl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 fibre | case |
| 31 | fibre | fibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 suspended | punct |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 suspended | obl |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 suspended | nsubj |
| 36 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stretched | conj |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 washing | nmod:poss |
| 38 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 suspended | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a enormous fireplace | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a enormous fireplace | any part | of the room; almost property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | care | past | you | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | light | to-infinitive | you not said here | room | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||||
| 5 | stretch | past | strings | this Wendy | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent string=Patient | ||||
| 6 | make | participle | strings not said here | of fibre | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 7 | suspend | past | fireplace | fireplace's washing | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent washing=Theme from which=Source | ||||
| 8 | wash | fireplace | nom washing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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