Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 112
For that one moment he dropped his silliness and spoke with dignity.
Who acts: instinct · What happens: drop, speak · To what, where: silliness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (instinct), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 moment | nummod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dropped | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dropped | nsubj |
| 6 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 silliness | nmod:poss |
| 8 | silliness | silliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dropped | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spoke | cc |
| 10 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dropped | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 dignity | case |
| 12 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoke | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | instinct | instinct's silliness | moment | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silliness=Theme | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | instinct not said here | with dignity | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with dignity=Co-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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