--- title: It consisted of one large room, as all houses should do, with a floo… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: It consisted of one large room, as all houses should do, with a floor in which you could dig if you wanted to go fishing, and in this floor grew stout mushrooms of a charming colour, which were used as stools. Who acts: home, houses, you, floor. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/) / 11 # Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 11 It consisted of one large room, as all houses should do, with a floor in which you could dig if you wanted to go fishing, and in this floor grew stout mushrooms of a charming colour, which were used as stools. **Who acts:** home, houses, you, floor · **What happens:** consist, do, dig, want, go, grow · **To what, where:** floor, fishing, stout mushrooms, charming colour 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 (home, houses, you, floor), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg16:8:11 # text = It consisted of one large room, as all houses should do, with a floor in which you could dig if you wanted to go fishing, and in this floor grew stout mushrooms of a charming colour, which were used as stools. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 consisted consist VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 obl _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 dig dig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl:relcl _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 34 stout stout ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 mushrooms mushroom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 charming charming NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl:relcl _ _ 44 as as ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 stools stool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consist** | past | home | | | | | of one large room | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | should | all houses | a floor | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Eventuality | | 3 | **dig** | could | you | | | a floor | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | | 4 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | fishing | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=Theme | | 6 | **grow** | past | this floor | stout mushrooms of a charming colour | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mushroom=Theme | | 7 | **use** | past · passive | | a charming colour | | | | as stools | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as stool=Attribute | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/12/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/)