Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 72
Should we take the brush with the redskins at Slightly Gulch?
Who acts: we · What happens: take · To what, where: brush, Gulch
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 (we), 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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brush | det |
| 5 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 redskins | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 redskins | det |
| 8 | redskins | redskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Gulch | case |
| 10 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 11 Gulch | advmod |
| 11 | Gulch | Gulch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | should | we | the brush | Gulch | with the redskins | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent brush=Theme at gulch=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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