Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 115
He drew back his hanger; and for that instant his sun was at noon.
Who acts: first, sun · What happens: draw back, be · To what, where: hanger
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 (first, sun), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 drew | advmod |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hanger | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hanger | hanger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 noon | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 noon | cc |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 instant | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 instant | det |
| 10 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 noon | obl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sun | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 noon | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 noon | cop |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 noon | case |
| 15 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw back | past | first | first's hanger | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hanger=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | first's sun | at noon | for that instant | tree rules |
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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