Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 27

Really there were whole weeks when, except perhaps with a stocking in the evening, she was never above ground.

Who acts: Tink · What happens: be · To what, where: ground

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 (Tink), 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	Really	really	ADV	_	3 were	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 when	cop
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weeks	amod
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stocking	punct
8	except	except	ADP	_	12 stocking	case
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	12 stocking	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 stocking	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stocking	det
12	stocking	stocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 when	appos
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 evening	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 evening	det
15	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stocking	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ground	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ground	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ground	cop
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 above	advmod
20	above	above	ADV	_	21 ground	advmod
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stocking	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 when	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						when property	tree rules
2	is a	past	Tink	ground				above property	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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