Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 43
These things scared her a little, and nobly anxious to do her duty, she tried to fix the old life in their minds by setting them examination papers on it, as like as possible to the ones she used to do at school.
Who acts: things, fireplace · What happens: scare, do, try, fix, set, use · To what, where: fireplace, duty, old life, minds, things, mind
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 (things, 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 things | det |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scared | nsubj |
| 3 | scared | scare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scared | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 scared | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 anxious | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 anxious | cc |
| 9 | nobly | nobly | ADV | _ | 10 anxious | advmod |
| 10 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 scared | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 anxious | xcomp |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 duty | nmod:poss |
| 14 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tried | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tried | nsubj |
| 17 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scared | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 fix | mark |
| 19 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tried | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 life | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 life | amod |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fix | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 minds | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 minds | nmod:poss |
| 25 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fix | obl |
| 26 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 27 setting | mark |
| 27 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 fix | advcl |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 setting | obj |
| 29 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 papers | compound |
| 30 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 setting | obj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 setting | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 possible | punct |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 37 possible | cc |
| 35 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 as | fixed |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 as | fixed |
| 37 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tried | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 ones | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 ones | det |
| 40 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 possible | obl |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 used | nsubj |
| 42 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 ones | acl:relcl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 do | mark |
| 44 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 used | xcomp |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 school | case |
| 46 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 do | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scare | past | this things | fireplace | a little obl:unmarked | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | this things not said here | fireplace's duty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | try | past | fireplace | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | fix not said to happen | to-infinitive | fireplace not said here | the old life | things's minds | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent life=Patient | |||
| 5 | set | gerund | fireplace not said here | things = thing | mind | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme paper=Destination | |||
| 6 | use | past | fireplace | the ones not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent one=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | fireplace not said here | school | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | mind | things = thing | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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