Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 70

To describe them all would require a book as large as an English-Latin, Latin-English Dictionary, and the most we can do is to give one as a specimen of an average hour on the island.

What happens: describe, require, be · To what, where: Adventures, book

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: 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	To	to	PART	_	2 describe	mark
2	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 require	advcl
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 describe	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 them	nmod:unmarked
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 require	aux
6	require	require	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 book	det
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 require	obj
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 large	advmod
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 book	amod
11	as	as	ADP	_	15 Latin	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Latin	det
13	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Latin	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 English	punct
15	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 large	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Latin	punct
17	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Latin	conj
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Dictionary	punct
19	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Dictionary	compound
20	Dictionary	Dictionary	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Latin	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 do	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 most	det
24	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 do	advmod
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 give	aux
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 give	cop
29	to	to	PART	_	30 give	mark
30	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 require	conj
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 give	obj
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 specimen	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 specimen	det
34	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 one	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 hour	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 hour	det
37	average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hour	amod
38	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 specimen	nmod
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 island	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 island	det
41	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hour	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 require	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	to-infinitive	Adventures = adventure		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	require	would	a book		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme book=Precondition
3	is	to-infinitive · do-support		give property	tree rules

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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