Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 46
Great were the rejoicings when Peter reached the home under the ground almost as soon as Wendy, who had been carried hither and thither by the kite.
Who acts: Great rejoicings, kite · What happens: be, reach, carry · To what, where: Great rejoicings, home, ground, Wendy
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 (Great rejoicings, kite), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rejoicings | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rejoicings | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rejoicings | det |
| 4 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 reached | mark |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 home | det |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obl |
| 13 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 reached | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 Wendy | case |
| 17 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 soon | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carried | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 carried | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 carried | aux:pass |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Wendy | acl |
| 23 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 22 carried | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 thither | cc |
| 25 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 23 hither | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 kite | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 kite | det |
| 28 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obl:agent |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Great rejoicings | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | the Great rejoicings | the home | the ground | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||
| 3 | carry | past · perfect · passive | the kite | Wendy | hither property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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