Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 22

The couch, as she always called it, was a genuine Queen Mab, with club legs; and she varied the bedspreads according to what fruit-blossom was in season.

Who acts: rule, couch, fruit blossom · What happens: call, be, vary, accord · To what, where: couch, genuine Mab, bedspreads · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rule, couch, fruit blossom), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 couch	det
2	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Mab	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 called	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 called	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 called	advmod
7	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 couch	acl:relcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 called	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 couch	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Mab	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Mab	det
12	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Mab	amod
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Mab	nmod:desc
14	Mab	Mab	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 legs	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 legs	case
17	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 legs	compound
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 Mab	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 varied	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 varied	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 varied	nsubj
22	varied	vary	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Mab	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bedspreads	det
24	bedspreads	bedspread	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 varied	obj
25	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 what	case
26	to	to	ADP	_	25 according	fixed
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 varied	obl
28	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blossom	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 fruit	punct
30	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 season	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 season	cop
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 season	case
33	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 what	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 Mab	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	rule	couch		always property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	is a	past	the couch	a genuine Mab		with club legs; Queen nmod:desc	tree rules
3	vary	past	rule	the bedspreads		accord a genuine Mab	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer bedspread=Patient
4	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	fruit blossom		in season		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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