Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 82

A shorter adventure, and quite as exciting, was Tinker Bell’s attempt, with the help of some street fairies, to have the sleeping Wendy conveyed on a great floating leaf to the mainland.

Who acts: shorter adventure · What happens: be, have, convey, float, help · To what, where: attempt, sleeping, great floating leaf, street fairies

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 (shorter adventure), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adventure	det
2	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 adventure	amod
3	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attempt	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 exciting	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 exciting	cc
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 exciting	advmod
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 exciting	case
8	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 adventure	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 adventure	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 attempt	cop
11	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 attempt	nmod:poss
12	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Tinker	flat
13	’s	's	PART	_	11 Tinker	case
14	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 help	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 help	det
18	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attempt	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 fairies	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 fairies	det
21	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fairies	compound
22	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 help	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 have	mark
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 attempt	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sleeping	det
27	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
28	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sleeping	appos
29	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 sleeping	acl
30	on	on	ADP	_	34 leaf	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 leaf	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 leaf	amod
33	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 leaf	amod
34	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 conveyed	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 mainland	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 mainland	det
37	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 leaf	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 attempt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	a shorter adventure	Tinker's attempt		tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive		the sleeping		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleeping=Patient
3	convey	participle		the sleeping not said here	a great floating leaf to the mainland	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	float	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	help			some street fairies		nom help «act transitive»: of=patient

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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