Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 57
By the way, the questions were all written in the past tense.
Who acts: way · What happens: write · To what, where: questions, past tense
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 (way), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 written | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 questions | det |
| 6 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 written | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 written | aux:pass |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 written | advmod |
| 9 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tense | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tense | det |
| 12 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tense | amod |
| 13 | tense | tense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 written | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · passive | the way | the questions | the past tense | all property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in tense=Destination |
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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