Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 51

Or “(1) Describe Mother’s laugh; (2) Describe Father’s laugh; (3) Describe Mother’s Party Dress; (4) Describe the Kennel and its Inmate.”

Who acts: 1, 3, 4, Mother, Describe Father · What happens: describe, laugh · To what, where: laugh, Party Dress, Kennel

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 (1, 3, 4, Mother), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	6 Describe	cc
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Describe	punct
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 1	punct
4	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 Describe	nsubj
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 1	punct
6	Describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laugh	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Mother	case
9	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Describe	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 2	punct
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 2	punct
12	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 Describe	obl
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 2	punct
14	Describe	Describe	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Father	compound
15	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 laugh	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Father	case
17	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 2	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 Describe	punct
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 3	punct
20	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 Describe	nsubj
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 3	punct
22	Describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Describe	conj
23	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Dress	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Mother	case
25	Party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Dress	compound
26	Dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Describe	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 Describe	punct
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 4	punct
29	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 Describe	nsubj
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 4	punct
31	Describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Describe	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Kennel	det
33	Kennel	kennel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Describe	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Inmate	cc
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 Inmate	nmod:poss
36	Inmate	inmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Kennel	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Describe	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Describe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe in a quote	infinitive	1	Mother's laugh	2 obl	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme
2	describe in a quote	infinitive	3	Mother's Party Dress		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
3	describe in a quote	infinitive	4	the Kennel and Dress's Inmate		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kennel=Theme
4	laugh in a quote		Mother			nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
5	laugh in a quote		Describe Father			nom laugh «communication intransitive»: 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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