Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 39
As time wore on did she think much about the beloved parents she had left behind her?
Who acts: fireplace · What happens: wear, think, leave · To what, where: beloved parents
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 (fireplace), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wore | obl |
| 3 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wore | advcl |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 think | advmod |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 parents | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 parents | det |
| 11 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 parents | amod |
| 12 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 think | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 parents | acl:relcl |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | time | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · do-support | fireplace | about the beloved parents | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about parent=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect | fireplace | the beloved parents not said here | behind Peter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent parent=Theme behind she=Location |
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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