Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 45

They were the most ordinary questions—“What was the colour of Mother’s eyes?

Who acts: boys, ordinary questions · What happens: be · To what, where: ordinary questions, colour · 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 (boys, ordinary questions), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 questions	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 questions	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 questions	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 ordinary	advmod
5	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 questions	amod
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 questions	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 colour	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 colour	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 colour	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 colour	det
12	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 questions	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 eyes	case
14	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 eyes	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Mother	case
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 colour	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 questions	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be speech: other	past	boys = boy	the ordinary questions and the colour					tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past	the ordinary questions and the colour	the colour				of Mother's eyes	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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