Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 33
The bird covered her face with her wings, so as not to see the last of them; but she could not help peeping between the feathers.
Who acts: bird, Peter · What happens: cover, not see, not help, peep · To what, where: face, last
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, Peter), 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 | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 covered | nsubj |
| 3 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 face | nmod:poss |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 covered | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 wings | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 covered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 see | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 covered | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 last | det |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 last | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 help | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 help | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 help | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 help | advmod |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 see | conj |
| 25 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 help | xcomp |
| 26 | between | between | ADP | _ | 28 feathers | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 feathers | det |
| 28 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 peeping | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | the bird | Peter's face | with Peter's wings | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with wing=Theme | |||
| 2 | not see | to-infinitive | the bird not said here | the last | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer last=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not help | could | Peter | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | peep not said to happen | gerund | Peter not said here | between the feathers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent between feather=Theme |
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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