Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 47
Was Mother blonde or brunette?
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: 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Mother | cop |
| 2 | Mother | mother | CCONJ | _ | 3 blonde | cc |
| 3 | blonde | blonde | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 brunette | cc |
| 5 | brunette | brunette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blonde | conj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 blonde | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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