Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 18
It was rough and simple, and not unlike what baby bears would have made of an underground house in the same circumstances.
Who acts: signal · What happens: be, make · To what, where: baby bears, same circumstances
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 (signal), 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 | 3 rough | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rough | cop |
| 3 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 simple | cc |
| 5 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rough | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 what | advmod |
| 9 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 rough | parataxis |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bears | compound |
| 12 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | aux |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 18 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 house | amod |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 circumstances | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 circumstances | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 circumstances | amod |
| 23 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | signal | rough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | signal not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | would · perfect · passive | baby bears | the same circumstances | of a underground house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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