Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 85
Which of these adventures shall we choose?
Who acts: we · What happens: choose
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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 choose | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 adventures | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 adventures | det |
| 4 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 choose | obl |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 choose | aux |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 choose | nsubj |
| 7 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | shall | we | of this adventures | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
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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