Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 7
Once you fit, great care must be taken to go on fitting, and this, as Wendy was to discover to her delight, keeps a whole family in perfect condition.
Who acts: you, Wendy, Peter · What happens: fit, take, go, be, keep, delight · To what, where: great care, fitting, whole family, perfect condition
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, Wendy, Peter), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 fit | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fit | nsubj |
| 3 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fit | punct |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 care | amod |
| 6 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taken | aux:pass |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taken | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 fitting | case |
| 13 | fitting | fitting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 this | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 this | cc |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 taken | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 discover | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 discover | mark |
| 19 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 discover | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 discover | cop |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 discover | mark |
| 22 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taken | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 delight | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 delight | nmod:poss |
| 25 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 discover | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 keeps | punct |
| 27 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 discover | advcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 family | det |
| 29 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 family | amod |
| 30 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 keeps | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 condition | case |
| 32 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 condition | amod |
| 33 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 keeps | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | you | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | must · passive | great care | this obl | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | fitting | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on fitting=Location | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Wendy | to Peter's delight; discover property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | keep | present | Wendy not said here | a whole family | perfect condition | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent family=Theme in condition=Location | |||
| 6 | delight | Peter | nom delight «feeling 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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