Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 52

They were just everyday questions like these, and when you could not answer them you were told to make a cross; and it was really dreadful what a number of crosses even John made.

Who acts: Kennel, you, cross, number · What happens: be, not answer, tell, make · To what, where: everyday questions, Kennel, you, cross · 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 (Kennel, you, cross, number), 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	5 questions	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 questions	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 questions	advmod
4	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 questions	amod
5	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 these	case
7	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 questions	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 answer	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 answer	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 answer	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 answer	advmod
14	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 answer	obj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 told	aux:pass
18	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 questions	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 make	mark
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cross	det
22	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 dreadful	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dreadful	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dreadful	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dreadful	cop
27	really	really	ADV	_	28 dreadful	advmod
28	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 told	conj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 made	obl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 number	det
31	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 made	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 crosses	case
33	crosses	cross	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 number	nmod
34	even	even	ADV	_	35 John	advmod
35	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 crosses	appos
36	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dreadful	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 questions	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Kennel	everyday questions		like these	tree rules
2	not answer speech: assert	could	you		Kennel		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	past · passive		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	make	to-infinitive		a cross			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cross=Product
5	is	past	cross			dreadful property	tree rules
6	make	past	a number of crosses				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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