Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 140
The invitation was meant specially for Peter, but each of the boys was thinking exclusively of himself, and at once they jumped with joy.
Who acts: each, boys · What happens: mean, think, jump · To what, where: invitation
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 (each, boys), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 invitation | det |
| 2 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 meant | aux:pass |
| 4 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | specially | specially | ADV | _ | 4 meant | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Peter | case |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 meant | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thinking | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 thinking | cc |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 thinking | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 boys | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boys | det |
| 13 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 each | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thinking | aux |
| 15 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 meant | conj |
| 16 | exclusively | exclusively | ADV | _ | 15 thinking | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 thinking | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 jumped | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 jumped | cc |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 jumped | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 jumped | nsubj |
| 24 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 meant | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 joy | case |
| 26 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 jumped | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past · passive | the invitation | for Peter; specially property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for peter=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · progressive | each | of Michael; exclusively property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | jump | past | boys = boy | with joy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory |
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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