Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 19

But there was one recess in the wall, no larger than a bird-cage, which was the private apartment of Tinker Bell.

Who acts: one recess, bird cage · What happens: be · To what, where: wall, private apartment

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 (one recess, bird cage), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 recess	nummod
5	recess	recess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 larger	punct
10	no	no	ADV	_	11 larger	advmod
11	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 wall	amod
12	than	than	ADP	_	16 cage	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cage	det
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cage	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 bird	punct
16	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 larger	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 apartment	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 apartment	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 apartment	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 apartment	det
21	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 apartment	amod
22	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cage	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Bell	case
24	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Bell	compound
25	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 apartment	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	one recess			the wall; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wall=Location
2	is a	past	a bird cage and the private apartment	the private apartment				of Tinker Bell	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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