Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 49
“(A) Write an essay of not less than 40 words on How I spent my last Holidays, or The Characters of Father and Mother compared.
Who acts: you, boys, Characters · What happens: write, spend, compare, essay · To what, where: essay, last Holidays, 40 words
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 (you, boys, Characters), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Write | punct |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 A | punct |
| 3 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Write | det |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 A | punct |
| 5 | Write | write | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 essay | det |
| 7 | essay | essay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Write | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 words | case |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 less | advmod |
| 10 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 12 40 | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 less | fixed |
| 12 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 words | nummod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 essay | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 spent | mark |
| 15 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 spent | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 spent | nsubj |
| 17 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Write | advcl |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 Holidays | nmod:poss |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Holidays | amod |
| 20 | Holidays | holiday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spent | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Characters | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 Characters | cc |
| 23 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Characters | det |
| 24 | Characters | Character | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 compared | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Father | case |
| 26 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Characters | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Mother | cc |
| 28 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Father | conj |
| 29 | compared | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 spent | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Write | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a essay of 40 words | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent essay=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spend in a quote | past | boys = boy | my last Holidays | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Asset | ||||
| 3 | compare in a quote | past | the Characters of Father and Mother | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | essay in a quote | 40 words | nom essay «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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