Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 27
This was telling, and Slightly seized his chance.
Who acts: This, rule · What happens: tell, seize, chance · To what, where: chance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, rule), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 telling | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 telling | aux |
| 3 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seized | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 seized | cc |
| 6 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 7 seized | advmod |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 telling | ccomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 chance | nmod:poss |
| 9 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 telling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · progressive | This | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | seize | past | rule's chance | slightly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chance | rule | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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