Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 71
Above, the redskins crouched before Peter.
What happens: crouch · To what, where: redskins, Peter
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: 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 | Above | above | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Above | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 redskins | det |
| 4 | redskins | redskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Above | nsubj |
| 5 | crouched | crouch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 redskins | acl |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 Peter | case |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 crouched | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Above | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crouch | participle | the redskins not said here | Peter | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before peter=Location |
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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