Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 156
To show that her departure would leave him unmoved, he skipped up and down the room, playing gaily on his heartless pipes.
Who acts: departure, Peter · What happens: show, leave, skip up, play, depart · To what, where: twist, heartless pipes · 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 (departure, 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 show | mark |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 skipped | advcl |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 leave | mark |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 departure | nmod:poss |
| 5 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 leave | aux |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 show | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leave | obj |
| 9 | unmoved | unmoved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 leave | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 skipped | nsubj |
| 12 | skipped | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 skipped | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 room | cc |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skipped | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 playing | punct |
| 19 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 skipped | advcl |
| 20 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 19 playing | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 pipes | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pipes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heartless | heartless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pipes | amod |
| 24 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 playing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 skipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | to-infinitive | departure not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | leave | would | Peter's departure | twist | unmoved property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | skip up | past | departure | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play | gerund | departure not said here | departure's heartless pipes | gaily property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | depart | Peter | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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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