Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 42
She drifted in one direction, and he was borne off in another, both cheering.
Who acts: Peter, both · What happens: drift, bear off, cheer · To what, where: one direction, bird, another
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 (Peter, both), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drifted | nsubj |
| 2 | drifted | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 direction | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 direction | nummod |
| 5 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drifted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 borne | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 borne | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 borne | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 borne | aux:pass |
| 10 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 drifted | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 borne | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 another | case |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 borne | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cheering | punct |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 cheering | nsubj |
| 16 | cheering | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 borne | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift | past | Peter | one direction | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | bear off | past · passive | bird | another | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cheer | gerund | both | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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