Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 4

He thought it was a piece of floating paper, perhaps part of the kite, and wondered idly how long it would take to drift ashore.

Who acts: sound, thing, it · What happens: think, be, float, wonder, take, drift · To what, where: piece · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sound, thing, it), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 piece	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 piece	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 piece	det
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 paper	case
8	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 paper	amod
9	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piece	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 part	punct
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	12 part	advmod
12	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piece	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 kite	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kite	det
15	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 part	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wondered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wondered	cc
18	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
19	idly	idly	ADV	_	18 wondered	advmod
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 long	advmod
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 take	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 take	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 take	aux
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wondered	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 drift	mark
26	drift	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 take	csubj
27	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	26 drift	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	sound			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	thing	a piece	of floating paper	tree rules
3	float	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wonder speech: ask	past	sound not said here		idly property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	take	would	it		long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	drift	to-infinitive			ashore property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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