Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 86
The best way will be to toss for it.
Who acts: best way · What happens: be
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 (best way), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 toss | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 toss | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 toss | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 toss | mark |
| 7 | toss | toss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 toss | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 toss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | the best way | for circle; toss 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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