Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 282
It was the tail of a kite, which Michael had made some days before.
Who acts: use · What happens: be, make · To what, where: tail
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tail | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tail | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tail | det |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 kite | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kite | det |
| 7 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tail | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tail | parataxis |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 days | det |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 days | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | use | the tail | of a kite | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | the tail | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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