Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 88
This almost makes one wish that the gulch or the cake or Tink’s leaf had won.
Who acts: This, leaf · What happens: make, win · To what, where: one wish
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 (This, leaf), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 makes | advmod |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 wish | nummod |
| 5 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 won | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gulch | det |
| 8 | gulch | gulch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaf | nmod:poss |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 cake | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cake | det |
| 11 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gulch | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 Tink | cc |
| 13 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gulch | conj |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 gulch | case |
| 15 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 won | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 won | aux |
| 17 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 wish | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | This | one wish | almost property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wish=Product | |||
| 2 | win | past · perfect | the gulch or the cake or Tink's leaf | one wish not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality |
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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