Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 74
And then, as so often before, the gay children dragged him from his tree.
Who acts: gay children · What happens: drag · To what, where: Michael, tree
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 (gay children), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dragged | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 dragged | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 then | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 before | mark |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 before | advmod |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 before | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 dragged | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 before | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 children | det |
| 10 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 children | amod |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dragged | nsubj |
| 12 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dragged | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tree | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dragged | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past | the gay children | Michael | Michael's tree | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from tree=Initial_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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