--- title: There was an enormous fireplace which was in almost any part of the… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: There was an enormous fireplace which was in almost any part of the room where you cared to light it, and across this Wendy stretched strings, made of fibre, from which she suspended her washing. Who acts: enormous fireplace, you, fireplace. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. TH --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/14/) [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/) / 14 # Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 14 There was an enormous fireplace which was in almost any part of the room where you cared to light it, and across this Wendy stretched strings, made of fibre, from which she suspended her washing. **Who acts:** enormous fireplace, you, fireplace · **What happens:** be, care, light, stretch, make, suspend · **To what, where:** part, room, strings, Wendy, washing 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 (enormous fireplace, you, fireplace), 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:pg16:8:14 # text = There was an enormous fireplace which was in almost any part of the room where you cared to light it, and across this Wendy stretched strings, made of fibre, from which she suspended her washing. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 enormous enormous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 fireplace fireplace NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 almost almost ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 acl:relcl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 cared care VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 light light VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 across across ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 Wendy Wendy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 26 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 fibre fibre NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 obl _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 suspended suspend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a enormous fireplace | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | a enormous fireplace | | | any part | | of the room; almost *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **care** | past | you | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **light** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | room | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | | 5 | **stretch** | past | | strings | | this Wendy | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent string=Patient | | 6 | **make** | participle | | strings *not said here* | | | | of fibre | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 7 | **suspend** | past | fireplace | fireplace's washing | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent washing=Theme from which=Source | | 8 | **wash** | | fireplace | | | | | | nom washing «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/15/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/)