Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 147
“All right,” Peter replied with a bitter smile, and immediately they rushed to get their things.
Who acts: Peter, Nibs · What happens: reply, rush, get · To what, where: things
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, Nibs), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 Peter | det |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 All | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 All | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 All | punct |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 smile | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 smile | det |
| 10 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 smile | amod |
| 11 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rushed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rushed | cc |
| 14 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 16 rushed | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rushed | nsubj |
| 16 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 rushed | xcomp |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 things | nmod:poss |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 get | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | all Peter | with a bitter smile | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with smile=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | Nibs = nib | immediately property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | Nibs = nib not said here | Nibs's things | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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