Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 127
Here Tink, who was in her bedroom, eavesdropping, squeaked out something impudent.
Who acts: Tink · What happens: be, eavesdrop, squeak out · To what, where: bedroom, something
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tink), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bedroom | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 bedroom | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bedroom | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bedroom | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bedroom | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tink | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eavesdropping | punct |
| 10 | eavesdropping | eavesdrop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 bedroom | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 squeaked | punct |
| 12 | squeaked | squeak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 eavesdropping | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 squeaked | compound:prt |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 squeaked | obj |
| 15 | impudent | impudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 something | amod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tink | Tink's bedroom | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eavesdrop | gerund | Tink not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | squeak out | participle | something | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent something=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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