Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 24

There was a chandelier from Tiddlywinks for the look of the thing, but of course she lit the residence herself.

Who acts: chandelier, carpet · What happens: be, light · To what, where: residence

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 (chandelier, carpet), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chandelier	det
4	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Tiddlywinks	case
6	Tiddlywinks	tiddlywink	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chandelier	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 look	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 look	det
9	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Tiddlywinks	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 thing	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 look	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lit	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 lit	cc
15	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	18 lit	advmod
16	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 of	fixed
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lit	nsubj
18	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 residence	det
20	residence	residence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lit	obj
21	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 lit	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a chandelier from Tiddlywinks for the look of the thing			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	light	past	carpet	the residence				carpet obl	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent residence=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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