Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 4
Even by day they hung about, smoking the pipe of peace, and looking almost as if they wanted tit-bits to eat.
Who acts: braves, tit bits · What happens: hang about, smoke, look, want, eat · To what, where: pipe, tit bits
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 (braves, tit bits), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 hung | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hung | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hung | nsubj |
| 5 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 hung | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 smoking | punct |
| 8 | smoking | smoke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hung | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pipe | det |
| 10 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smoking | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 peace | case |
| 12 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pipe | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looking | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looking | cc |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hung | advcl |
| 16 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 20 wanted | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 wanted | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 wanted | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wanted | nsubj |
| 20 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 looking | advcl |
| 21 | tit | tit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bits | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 tit | punct |
| 23 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wanted | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 eat | mark |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wanted | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang about | past | braves = brave | day | about property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | smoke | gerund | braves = brave not said here | the pipe of peace | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | braves = brave not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | want | past | braves = brave | tit bits | almost property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | tit bits not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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