Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 131
Nibs exclaimed, aghast at such insubordination, whereupon Peter went sternly toward the young lady’s chamber.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: exclaim, go · To what, where: Nibs, chamber
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 (Peter), 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 | Nibs | nib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 aghast | nsubj |
| 2 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Nibs | acl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 aghast | punct |
| 4 | aghast | aghast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 insubordination | case |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 insubordination | amod |
| 7 | insubordination | insubordination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aghast | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 went | advmod |
| 10 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 aghast | conj |
| 12 | sternly | sternly | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 18 chamber | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lady | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lady | amod |
| 16 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 lady | case |
| 18 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 aghast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | participle | Nibs not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Peter | the young lady's chamber | sternly, whereupon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward chamber=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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